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Burning  W^heel  Revival 

Eight  Towns  Swept  With  Revival  Fire 

Seven  Hundred  Souls  Saved 
Fifty  Deaf  People  Healed 


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Burning  Wheel  Revival 

Eight  Towns  Swept  With  Revival  Power 


700  Souls  Saved 
50  Deaf  People  Healed 


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INTRODUCTION 


I  was  baptized  in  the  Holy  Ghost  Oct.  11,  1914.  I  had  expected  to  receive  the 
enduement  with  power  from  on  high  mentioned  in  Luke  24:29  with  my  baptism,,  and 
was  disappointed  when  I  found  that  I  did  not  have  it.  I  continued  in  evangelistic  work 
for  a  time,  and  then  became  a  Jonah  for  five  years. 

In  March,  1921,  I  received  a  second  call  to  the  ministry  while  working  on  a  gas 
producer  in  Tiffin,  Ohio.  There  was  not  much  of  the  grace  of  God  in  me  at  that  time, 
and  it  took  much  fasting  and  prayer  to  reinstate  me  in  the  favor  of  God. 

In  July,  1921,  while  praying  in  the  prophet’s  room  in  the  house  of  Sister  Johnson 
at  To’edo,  Ohio,  the  Lord  told  me  that  I  was  a  glutton.  I  have  eaten  every  meal  since 
that  time  in  the  fear  of  God,  and  my  weight  has  decreased  fifty  pounds.  My  weight  is 
yet  above  normal  but  that  is  because  I  have  not  fasted  enough. 

In  January,  1922,  at  Parma,  Mo,  Bro.  S.  B.  Drew  told  me  a  story  that  changed 
the  entire  course  of  my  life.  He  told  me  about  a  Pentecostal  preacher  in  the  early  days 
of  Pentecost,  who  had  the  greatest  degree  of  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  his  min¬ 
istry  that  he  had  ever  witnessed.  He  told  me  also  that  this  man  prayed  two  hours 
every  day,  an  hour  in  the  morning  and  an  hour  in  the  evening. 

When  I  had  heard  this  story,  I  said  in  my  heart,  “The  two  hours  with  God  every 
day  is  what  gave  this  man  such  great  power,  and  if  it  gave  him  great  power  with  God 
it  would  give  me  great  power  with  God;  that  is  just  what  I  need.”  From  that  time  I 
tried  to  get  into  the  prayer  life,  but  it  took  me  fcur  months  to  get  it  started. 

At  Creal  Springs,  Ill.,  in  May,  1922,  I  began  to  pray  two  hours  a  day  for  an  endue¬ 
ment  with  power  from  on  high.  At  this  place  the  Lord  spake  to  me  saying,  “You  have 
a  puffed  up  spirit,  you  are  seeking  to  have  your  own  way;  you  are  praying  for  the  gifts, 
but  they  do  not  come  that  way.”  I  have  prayed  for  a  humble  spirit  every  day  since 
that  time. 

In  Louisville,  Ky.,  the  Lord  said  unto  me,  “I  knew  when  I  called  you  that  you 
would  go  through  to  the  end  no  matter  how  narrow  the  way.  The  way  on  which  you 
will  have  to  walk  will  be  rough;  but  the  way  on  which  your  Lord  walked  was  rough.” 

In  this  same  city  the  Lord  also  said  unto  me,  “Thou  hast  not  yet  attained  unto  my 
fulness.  If  I  were  to  throw  thee  cut  into  the  ocean  of  my  power  thou  couldst  not 
endure  its  mighty  waves.  I  must  strengthen  thee  first.  Put  away  from  before  thy 
face  the  things  which  thou  has  planned.” 

When  I  had  bewailed  my  uselessness  before  the  Lord  many  days,  saying  unto  the 
Lord  many  times  in  my  prayers,  “What  have  I  done  for  thee?”  the  Lord  said  unto  me 
-in  Toledo,  Ohio, 

“You  have  said  unto  me  many  times  ‘What  have  I  done  for  thee?’  You  have  done 
many  things  for  me,  but  without  me  you  have  done  nothing.  I  called  you,  and  you 
went  not  forth  to  the  work.  Many  souls  will  have  to  abide  in  darkness  because  you 
went  not  forth.  Keep  on  worshiping  me  and  when  you  walk  the  streets  of  heaven 
— Keep  plodding  on.” 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


THE  GREAT  REVIVAL  AT  PERCY,  ILL. 


I  sat  all  night  in  the  Union  Depot  in  St. 
Louis,  being  tempted  of  the  devil.  For 
some  time  everything  had  proven  a  dis¬ 
appointment  to  me.  I  was  in  great  finan¬ 
cial  straits.  My  temptation  seemed  more 
than  I  could  bear,  and  for  the  first  time 
in  my  life  I  decided  to  leave  the  ministry 
for  gcod.  I  reasoned  that  my  children 
had  just  as  good  a  right  to  a  square  liv¬ 
ing  as  any  body’s  else.  God  had  prom¬ 
ised  to  supp’y  the  needs  of  His  ministers, 
and  the  fact  that  my  needs  had  not  been 
supplied  I  considered  ample  proof  that  I 
was  mistaken  in  my  call.  So  I  made  what 
seemed  at  the  time  a  firm  decision  to  go 
home  and  work  with  my  hands  the  rest 
of  my  life  to  support  my  family. 

For  a  long  time  I  had  believed  that 
there  was  an  enduement  of  power,  sub¬ 
sequent  to  the  Baptism  of  the  Holy 
Ghost,  promised  in  the  Word;  and  for 
sixteen  months  I  had  been  endeavoring 
to  spend  at  least  two  hours  a  day  in 
secret  prayer  with  the  purpose  in  view 
of  obtaining  the  enduement  cf  power 
promised  in  the  Word.  A  thousand  hours, 
or  more,  of  wrestling  with  God  had 
broken  my  stiff  spirit.  A  stiffer  spirit  I 
think  was  never  possessed  by  man.  Secret 
communion  with  God  had  uncovered 
many  things  in  my  life  and  nature  that 
was  displeasing  to  God.  I  do  not  have 
reference  to  wilful  sin.  There  was  noth¬ 
ing  of  this  kind  in  my  life.  Many  of  the 
things  of  God  had  become  more  real  to 
me  in  the  place  of  secret  prayer,  but  all 
this  was  forgotten  in  the  hour  of  tempta¬ 
tion. 

After  my  decision  to  leave  the  ministry 
for  good  the  Lord  commanded  me  to  go 
to  Percy,  Ill.,  and  start  revival  services. 
I  had  no  call  from  Percy  to  come  and 
hold  a  revival,  so  I  refused  to  go.  Both 
Percy  and  Chester,  Ill.,  were  laid  on  my 
heart  at  that  time,  but  I  refused  to  go  to 
either  place,  because  I  had  decided  to 
leave  the  minist^  for  good.  With  this 
rebellious  purpose  in  my  heart  I  fell 
asleep  and  dreamed  I  was  in  one  of  these 
towns  praying  for  the  sick  and  they  were 
getting  healed.  When  I  awoke  I  said, 
“Lord,  I  will  go  and  preach  the  gospel  in 
these  towns,  but  to  which  of  these  towns 
shall  I  go  first?”  And  he  said,  “Go  to 
Percy  first.” 

I  went  to  Percy  and  met  with  the  saints 
and  to’d  them  that  God  made  me  come 
to  their  town  to  hold  a  meeting,  and  that 
I  was  going  to  preach  in  their  place  of 


worship  unless  they  fired  me.  No  one 
forbade  me,  but  my  story  was  so  strange 
that  I  think  none  of  them  believed  it.  I 
had  been  forced  to  come  to  Percy,  and  I 
think  I  felt  about  as  independent  of  man 
as  Jonah  did  while  he  was  preaching  in 
Ninevah. 

In  the  first  service  a  sinner  was  saved. 
During  the  first  week  of  the  revival  ten 
persons  received  the  baptism  of  the  Holy 
Ghost.  The  revival  continued  nearly 
eight  weeks,  during  which  time  about  one 
hundred  and  twenty  persons  received  the 
baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  Twice  dur¬ 
ing  the  revival  when  the  saints  met  at 
9:30  A.  M.  on  the  Lord’s  day  for  Sunday 
School,  it  was  impossib’e  to  have  Sunday 
School.  Both  times  the  Sunday  School 
broke  up  into  an  altar  service.  The  first 
time  this  occurred  the  service  continued 
without  intermission  until  10:00  P.  M. 
during  which  time  twenty-three  persons 
were  baptized  in  the  Holy  Ghost. 

A  good  degree  of  God’s  healing  power 
was  present  in  the  meetings.  An  old  man 
88  years  old  who  was  blind  in  one  eye 
and  deaf  in  one  ear,  received  his  hearing 
instantly  and  the  sight  came  into  his  eye 
about  an  hour  after  he  was  prayed  for. 
Another  man  who  was  deaf  in  one  ear  re¬ 
ceived  his  hearing  instantly.  He  had 
heard  no  sound  in  this  ear  for  eight 
months.  A  woman  who  had  been  very 
hard  of  hearing  for  years,  received  the 
Lord’s  healing  touch  and  could  hear  a 
watch  tick  in  both  ears.  Another  woman 
who  had  been  deaf  for  eighteen  years 
received  the  Lord’s  healing  touch.  Dur¬ 
ing  all  these  years  she  heard  no  sound, 
not  even  the  thunder.  And  she  says  that 
during  all  these  years  there  was  a  dis¬ 
agreeable  roaring  in  her  head.  She  had 
also  a  great  impediment  in  her  speech. 
The  roaring  ceased  when  the  deaf  spirit 
was  cast  out  of  her,  and  she  immediately 
began  to  hear  sounds.  She  testifies  that 
her  hearing  is  improving  every  day  al¬ 
though  it  is  not  yet  perfect.  Also  the 
impediment  is  leaving  her  speech.  Be¬ 
sides  these  there  were  a  good  many  other 
hea'ings  of  different  kinds. 

Numerous  visions  were  given  to  the 
saints  during  these  meetings.  Many  saw 
the  Lord  Jesus.  Two  persons  saw  the 
Lord  coming  in  a  cloud  to  receive  the 
saints.  They  both  describe  the  cloud  as 
of  a  beautiful  light-blue  color.  Many  saw 
angels.  One  sister  who  had  fasted  five 
days  for  the  salvation  of  her  husband, 


THE  GREAT  REVIVAL  AT  PERCY,  ILL. 


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while  he  was  at  the  altar  repenting,  fell 
into  a  trance  and  saw  the  heavens  opened 
and  the  angels  shouting  and  dancing  be¬ 
fore  the  throne  of  God.  A  little  girl  eight 
years  old  saw  the  saints  depart  for  heaven 
on  a  train  made  of  Gold.  The  track  also 
was  pure  gold.  Jesus  was  the  engineer. 
All  the  saints  were  dressed  in  white,  and 
as  the  train  departed  for  heaven,  the 
saints  were  seen  waving  good  bye  to  the 
sinners  down  upon  the  earth  This  same 
child  played  the  organ  in  the  Spirit;  and 
whi’e  her  little  hands  that  were  unskilled 
in  man’s  art  of  music,  interested  us  so 
wonderfully,  her  spirit  was  up  in  heaven 
playing  an  accompaniment  on  one  of 
heaven’s  organs  to  the  singing  of  a  throng 
of  angels  gathered  about  her. 

Other  towns  were  shaken  by  the  power 
of  the  Spirit.  About  a  dozen  persons  in 
Willisville  received  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Several  persons  from  Chester  (17  miles 
away)  received  the  baptism  of  the  Hoy 
Ghost.  One  of  these,  it  might  be  said, 
received  the  baptism  by  telephone.  A 
sister  in  Chester  called  up  a  sister  in 
Percy  to  ask  how  the  revival  was  pro¬ 
gressing.  While  she  was  hearing  the 
good  news  over  the  wires  the  power  of 
the  Spirit  fell  upon  her.  She  hung  up 
the  receiver  and  went  into  the  kitchen  of 
her  own  home  (fc  r  she  was  in  the  house 
of  a  neighbor)  where  a  Baptist  lady  was 
at  the  wrash-tub  doing  a  washing.  Here 
the  Pentecostal  sister  became  uncon¬ 
scious.  When  consciousness  returned, 
she  was  dancing  in  the  Spirit  and  the 
Baptist  lady  was  lying  on  the  floor  talk¬ 
ing  in  tongues. 

Dancing  in  the  Spirit  was  a  prominent 
factor  in  these  meetings  from  the  begin¬ 
ning  to  the  end.  In  one  of  the  services 
a  brother  counted  thirty-two  dancing  at 
one  time  and  every  one  was  dancing  a 
different  step.  In  one  of  the  services  at 
a  time  of  great  quietness,  the  Spirit  sud- 
den'y  fell  upon  the  saints  and  eight  or  ten 
of  the  saints  were  simultaneously  lifted  to 
their  feet  and  began  to  dance  in  the 
Spirit.  In  the  first  part  of  the  meeting 
only  the  women  and  girls  danced,  and  a 
man  who  was  opposed  to  the  dancing 
sa:d,  “It  is  only  the  women,  the  weaker 
vessels,  that  dance.  Why,”  said  he,  “do 
not  some  of  the  men  dance?”  After  this 
I  asked  the  Lord  to  make  some  of  the 
men  dance  just  to  show  that  Pie  could 
make  the  men  dance,  too.  Immediately 
after  this  some  of  the  men  began  to  dance 
in  the  Spirit,  and  before  the  revival 
closed  there  were  about  as  many  men  as 
women  dancing  in  some  of  the  services. 

A  remarkable  feature  of  the  dancing  in 
this  revival  was  the  visable  fact  that  in 
most  cases  it  seemed  that  the  power  of 
God  took  hold  of  their  bodies  and  just 


made  them  dance.  In  one  instance  the 
Spirit  fell  upon  a  young  woman  who  had 
been  saved  in  the  revival  causing  her  to 
dance.  She  made  repeated  efforts  to  stop 
dancing  and  could  not.  Finally  she  ex¬ 
claimed  with  a  loud  voice,  “This  is  real, 
people,  for  I  want  to  quit  and  I  can’t.” 
Her  testimony  brought  a  number  of  her 
friends  to  the  altar. 

Messages  by  tongues  interpreted  and 
by  prophecy  became  a  prominent  factor 
in  the  meetings.  On  the  last  day  of  the 
revival  a  little  girl  eight  years  old  was 
the  leading  factor  in  the  service.  She 
was  in  the  Spirit  for  several  hours,  dur¬ 
ing  which  time  she  signified  many  things 
to  us  by  the.  Spirit.  Among  the  numer¬ 
ous  things  she  did  were  the  following: 
She  laid  the  pulpit  down  on  its  back  and 
danced  all  around  it  and  upon  it.  Then 
she  lifted  it  up  and  set  it  in  its  place 
again  and  wept  over  it.  She  also  grasped 
the  B:ble  and  in  the  Spirit  pointed  out  to 
the  writer  thirteen  texts  of  Scripture  to 
read  to  the  audience.  The  first  text  she 
pointed  out  describes  a  famine  for  three 
years.  Others  describe  mobs,  imprison¬ 
ments  and  persecution  of  the  saints  unto 
death.  Some  of  them  describe  also  great 
miracle  power.  We  were  led  to  believe 
as  we  read  these  Scriptures  that  such 
things  are  coming  upon  us. 

The  foTowing  is  the  list  of  Scriptures 
pointed  out  to  us  by  the  Holy  Spirit,  in 
the  way  described  above:  2  Sam.  21:1; 
Acts  17:1-9;  John  16:1-7;  Luke  1:1-4; 
Mark  2:1-7;  Psa.  14;  Acts  12:1-6;  2  Sam. 
12:1-5;  1  Sam.  16:1-3;  Num.  20:3-4; 

Judges  14:1-3;  Gen.  16:1-5;  2  Sam.  21:17. 
The  eyes  of  this  child  remained  closed 
all  the  time  while  these  things  were  tak¬ 
ing  place. 

After  these  Scriptures  were  pointed  out 
to  us,  the  child  found  a  card  and  a  pencil 
in  the  Bible.  She  made  a  tiny  cross  at 
the  beginning  and  end  of  the  20th  and  the 
22nd  chapters  of  Second  Samuel,  turned 
a  leaf  down  between  these  two  chapters, 
then  wrote  on  the  card  the  words,  “Talk 
about  this  to-night,”  and  then  handed  me 
the  card  and  the  Bible.  It  was  no  easy 
matter  for  me  to  frame  a  sermon  out  of 
the  things  contained  in  these  chapters, 
nevertheless  I  obeyed  the  Sp  rit  and  did 
the  best  I  could  and  seven  persons  came 
to  the  altar. 

Another  remarkable  feature  of  this  re¬ 
vival  is  the  fact  that  nearly  all  the  seekers 
received  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost 
the  same  night  they  were  converted,  be¬ 
fore  they  left  the  altar. 

The  revival  was  continued  at  Percy 
until  the  Holy  Spirit  told  me  to  go  to 
another  town.  We  then  went  to  Willis¬ 
ville.  three  miles  south  of  Percy,  rented 
the  largest  empty  store-room  in  the  town 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


and  began  revival  services.  The  room 
was  packed  full  of  eager  listeners  from 
the  beginning,  and  six  or  seven  persons 
came  to  the  altar  in  the  first  service.  The 
revival  in  Willisville  has  been  going  on 
two  weeks.  About  twenty-five  persons 
have  received  the  Holy  Ghost.  Several 


remarkable  healings  have  also  been 
wrought  by  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost, 
which  will  be  described  in  our  next  re¬ 
port. 

Written  at  Willisville,  Ill.,  Dec.  25, 
1923. 


THE  REVIVALS  AT  WILLISVILLE  AND  CUTLER 


The  revival  at  Willisville  continued  for 
more  than  a  month  during  which  time 
about  fifty  persons  received  the  baptism 
of  the  Holy  Ghost.  Bro.  Alex.  Ferguson 
was  in  charge  of  this  revival  during  the 
holiday  week,  while  the  writer  visited  his 
family  at  Fostoria,  Ohio.  A  good  degree 
of  God’s  healing  power  was  manifested 
in  this  revival.  A  woman  who  was  very 
hard  of  hearing  in  one  year  was  healed 
so  that  she  could  hear  as  well  in  one  ear 
as  in  the  other.  A  young  man  who  had 
heard  no  sound  in  one  ear  for  sixteen 
years  was  instantly  healed.  Another  man 
who  had  heard  no  sound  in  one  ear  for 
thirty  years  was  perfectly  healed.  All 
these  persons  heard  the  watch  tick 
through  their  restored  ears.  I  thank  the 
dear  Lord  that  through  His  power  the 
gospel  may  be  preached  also  to  the  deaf. 

There  were  some  marvelous  manifesta¬ 
tion  of  the  power  of  the  Holy  Spirit.  In 
one  of  the  evening  services  the  Spirit 
gave  a  wonderful  message  by  tongues 
interpreted  through  two  little  girls  nine 
and  eleven  years  old.  They  told  the 
sinners  many  things  about  the  birth  of 
Jesus,  His  manger-cradle,  the  star  of 
Bethlehem,  the  wise  men  worshiping  the 
infant  Jesus,  and  the  vision  of  the  shep¬ 
herds  at  the  time  of  Jesus’  birth.  They 
told  the  sinners  also  that  Jesus  was  com¬ 
ing  soon  upon  a  light  blue  cloud,  and  they 
told  them  to  look  out  for  this  cloud.  They 
told  them  also  that  Jesus  was  going  to 
set  up  a  great  white  throne  upon  the 
earth,  but  that  none  of  the  sinners  should 
see  this  great  white  throne  unless  they 
repented.  They  told  the  sinners  that  un¬ 
less  they  repented  they  shou’d  become 
ashes,  and  that  the  fire  which  should  con¬ 
sume  them  should  start  in  the  ocean. 

“When  you  see  the  flames  arising  out  of 
the  sea,’’  said  the  Spirit  through  these 
children,  “know  that  your  destruction  is 
at  hand.”  These  messages  in  tongues 
came  sometimes  through  one  of  these 
children,  and  sometimes  through  the 
other,  and  the  interpretations  likewise. 
At  the  last  powerful  appeals  came  from 
the  mouths  of  these  children  to  the  sin¬ 
ners  urging  them  to  repentance,  an  altar 
call  was  given  and  fourteen  sinners  came 
to  the  a'tar.  A  few  days  before  the  re¬ 
vival  at  Willisville  closed,  the  revival 


power  lifted.  I  tarried  many  hours  be¬ 
fore  the  Lord  to  find  out  the  reason  why, 
but  received  nothing  from  the  Lord  ex¬ 
cept  the  command  to  get  quickly  out  of 
that  town.  I  preached  a  farewell  sermon 
to  the  church  and  left  Willisville  not 
knowing  whither  I  was  going.  I  went  to 
Cutler,  a  little  town  four  miles  east  of 
Percy,  where  Bro.  Williams,  a  brother 
from  St.  Louis,  had  opened  a  mission. 
Six  persons  had  already  received  the  bap¬ 
tism  under  the  labors  of  Bro.  Williams. 

When  I  arrived  at  Cutler  I  found  that 
Bro.  Williams  had  been  praying  to  the 
Lord  to  send  me  to  Cutler  to  help  him. 
I  had  received  the  message  which  he  had 
sent  to  me  via  heaven  and  had  come  to 
help  him.  During  the  revival  at  Percy 
the  Holy  Spirit  told  us  by  prophecy  that 
we  should  have  a  greater  revival  than 
the  one  at  Percy,  in  another  town.  This 
prophecy  has  already  been  fulfilled  at 
Cutler.  About  fifty  persons  received  the 
Holy  Ghost  in  the  first  week  of  the  re¬ 
vival.  Others  are  coming  through  at 
every  service. 

There  are  manv  wonderful  manifesta¬ 
tions  of  the  Spirit  in  this  revival.  Some 
dance  in  the  Spirit  and  afterwards  re¬ 
member  nothing  about  it.  Many  are  fall¬ 
ing  into  trances  and  see  wonderful  vis¬ 
ions.  Seme  see  visions  which  they  are 
forbidden  to  relate.  Many  have  seen  the 
Lord  Jesus.  Angels  have  appeared  unto 
many.  A  boy  fourteen  years  old  has 
seen  several  scenes  in  the  life  of  Chr.st. 
He  saw  Jesus  riding  the  ass  into  Jerusa¬ 
lem,  while  people  spread  their  garments 
in  the  way  before  Him.  He  saw  also 
Jesus  in  Gethsemane.  He  saw  Him  leave 
three  men  standing  under  some  trees  and 
wa.k  a  short  distance  from  them  and 
kneel  down  to  pray.  He  heard  Jesus  say 
unto  the  Father,  “Father,  if  I  must  be 
taken  away,  let  it  be  so  now.”  Then  he 
saw  an  angel  appear  to  Jesus  and  he 
heard  the  angel  say  to  Jesus,  “You  must 
be  taken  away  ”  After  this  he  saw  Jesus 
and  the  two  thieves  nailed  to  their 
crosses.  The  cross  was  lying  on  the 
ground  and  they  stretched  Jesus  upon  it. 
His  hands  were  made  fast  to  the  cross  by 
means  of  spikes  driven  through  His 
hands,  one  through  each  hand;  then  His 
feet  were  placed  on  some  kind  of  a  foot- 


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7 


rest,  one  foot  was  placed  on  the  other 
and  a  large  spike  was  driven  through 
both  His  feet.  The  blood  ran  down  upon 
the  ground  from  all  these  wounds.  The 
nails  in  His  hands  were  not  driven  down 
tight  and  Jesus  several  times  raised  His 
hands  up  to  the  heads  of  the  nails,  but 
the  skin  on  the  backs  of  His  hands,  hav¬ 
ing  been  dragged  into  the  wood  by  the 
nails,  stuck  to  the  cross.  Then  the  sol¬ 
diers  picked  up  the  cross  on  which  Jesus 
had  been  fastened  and  stood  it  up  and  let 
the  foot  of  the  cross  drop  into  a  hole. 

Another  brother  had  a  visian  of  the 
battle  of  Armageddon.  He  saw  an  im¬ 
mense  army  from  a  right  flank  position. 
He  could  see  down  between  the  lines  of 
so'diers.  The  army  was  marching  down 
a  broad  valley  between  two  ranges  of 
mountains,  covering  the  entire  valley 
from  mountain  to  mountain.  The  army 
was  so  many  lines  deep  that  the  brother 
could  not  see  the  rear  end  of  the  army. 
The  soldiers  all  had  guns  with  bayonets 
fixed  on  them,  and  they  seemed  to  be 
rushing  forward  to  make  a  bayonet 
charge.  Then  the  vision  moved  to  the 


right  and  the  brother  saw  an  army  of 
saints  reaching  across  the  valley  in  front 
of  the  great  army  to  resist  them.  The 
saints  were  all  dressed  in  white,  and  held 
no  weapons  in  their  hands.  Hosts  of 
angels  were  hovering  over  the  army  of 
the  saints,  which  looked  like  a  white 
streak  across  the  valley.  When  the  front 
ranks  of  soldiers  were  about  two  hundred 
yards  from  the  army  of  the  saints,  some 
of  the  saints  clapped  their  hands,  others 
pushed  out  their  hands  towards  the  ad¬ 
vancing  army  and  the  soldiers  in  the 
front  ranks  of  this  great  army  fell  dead 
by  the  thousands.  The  rest  of  the  sol¬ 
diers  who  were  not  slain  in  the  mighty 
blast  of  God’s  power,  became  confused 
and  began  to  slay  one  another.  Soon  the 
ground  was  covered  with  blood:  but 
where  the  army  of  the  saints  stood  there 
was  no  blood.  Then  appeared  above  this 
terrible  scene  in  letters  of  fire  the  word 
ARMAGEDDON.  See  Rev.  16:16. 

I  believe  this  revival  will  spread  into 
many  other  towns  for  the  Holy  Spirit  has 
said,  “There  will  be  many  open  doors.” 

Written  at  Cutler,  Ill.,  Jan.  20,  1924. 


THE  REVIVALS  AT  WILLISVILLE  AND  CUTLER  (continued) 


The  writer  came  to  this  town  and  open¬ 
ed  revival  services,  after  remaining  with 
Bro.  Williams  in  Cutler  two  weeks,  dur¬ 
ing  which  time  about  ninety  persons  re¬ 
ceived  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 
Sinners  fell  from  their  seats  under  the 
power  of  God  in  this  meeting.  One  sin¬ 
ner  on  his  way  to  the  altar,  fell  when  he 
was  within  about  10  feet  of  the  altar  and 
we  had  to  drag  him  the  rest  of  the  way. 
Another  sinner,  who  had  told  his  little 
girl  that  if  she  came  to  the  altar  he  would 
stamp  all  the  clothes  off  of  her,  fell  from 
his  seat  under  the  power.  We  laid  him 
beside  the  altar.  He  came  to  after  about 
three  hours  weeping  and  confessing  his 
s:ns.  He  is  now  filled  with  the  Holy 
Ghost. 

In  some  instances  the  power  of  God 
was  so  great  in  those  who  were  in  the 
Spirit,  that  those  who  touched  them  re¬ 
ceived  powerful  shocks  by  God’s  power. 
A  brother  who  attempted  to  lift  up  his 
sister  who  had  fallen  under  the  power, 
was  knocked  down,  falling  in  a  heap. 
For  a  little  time  he  could  not  arise.  He 
had  touched  a  live  wire  from  heaven. 

A  little  girl  twelve  years  old,  whose 
mother  is  dead,  received  the  baptism  in 
one  of  the  night  services.  After  talking 
in  tongues  for  a  time,  she  began  to  dance 
beautifully  in  the  Spirit,  spinning  around 
like  a  top.  Then  she  fell  into  a  trance. 
When  she  awoke  I  asked  her  if  she  had 
seen  any  thing.  She  said,  “Yes,  I  saw 


God  and  He  was  holding  my  mother  in 
His  arms.”  But  she  did  not  know  that 
she  had  danced. 

A  woman  seventy-six  years  old  re¬ 
ceived  the  baptism  and  danced  in  the 
Spirit.  Two  persons  saw  a  pair  of  Golden 
steps  reaching  from  earth  to  heaven.  In 
both  these  visions  Jesus  was  descending 
the  steps.  In  one  of  these  visions,  which 
was  given  to  a  boy  fourteen  years  old, 
Jesus  had  descended  to  the  bottom  step 
and  was  in  the  act  of  laying  his  hands 
upon  the  boy’s  head  when  the  vision  end¬ 
ed.  In  the  other  vision  Jesus  had  taken 
the  first  step  downward. 

The  same  boy  who  saw  the  golden 
steps,  saw  also  an  ancient  mansion.  Then 
he  saw  Jesus  come  out  of  this  mansion 
and  when  he  had  descended  the  beautiful 
front  steps,  He  started  to  walk  toward  a 
mountain.  Then  he  saw  a  crowd  of  vir¬ 
gins  all  dressed  in  white,  each  carrying 
a  palm  leaf,  come  out  of  this  mansion  and 
descend  the  steps.  Then  he  saw  them 
running  to  overtake  Jesus.  When  they 
had  overtaken  Him  they  entirely  sur¬ 
rounded  Him,  some  walking  before  Him, 
some  on  each  side  of  Him,  and  some  be¬ 
hind  Him;  and  thus  they  walked  on  with 
Jesus. 

An  aged  Baptist  sister,  who  passed  into 
eternity  about  two  years  ago,  through 
whose  prayers  many  sick  people  had  re¬ 
ceived  healing,  was  seen  in  heaven  by  a 
brother  when  in  a  trance. 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


Some  of  the  visions  given  by  the  Holy 
Spirit  in  these  meetings  are  as  sealed 
books,  only  to  be  unlocked  by  time. 

It  was  almost  impossible  to  make  room 
at  the  altar  for  all  the  seekers  in  some 
of  the  night  services.  The  Lord  wrought 
two  noted  miracles  at  Willisville,  which 
were  net  mentioned  in  the  previous  re¬ 
port.  When  that  extreme  cold  spell  come 
early  in  January,  we  were  engaged  in  the 
revival  at  Willisville.  Our  meeting  was 
greatly  hindered  because  we  could  not 
make  the  mission  room  warm  enough  to 
hold  altar  services.  In  one  of  the  after¬ 
noon  services  we  all  knelt  in  prayer  and 
asked  the  Lord  to  send  the  south  wind 
and  blow  all  the  cold  back  mto  the  north¬ 
ern  regions.  By  the  following  morning 
the  south  wind  had  arrived  and  the  cold 
was  quickly  blown  away  so  that  we  could 
go  on  with  our  meetings. 

A  few  days  later  the  newspapers  an¬ 
nounced  that  a  cold  wave  would  arrive 
the  next  morning  which  would  push  the 
mercury  down  to  10  below  zero.  We  all 
knelt  in  prayer  in  the  afternoon  service 
that  day  and  asked  the  Lord  to  turn  this 
cold  wave  off  to  some  other  part  of  the 
country  where  it  would  not  hinder  re¬ 
vival  services.  The  cold  wave  never  ar¬ 
rived.  Many  people  supposed  that  the 
weather  bureau  had  made  a  mistake;  but 
when  they  heard  that  the  cold  wave  had 
been  turned  away  through  the  prayers  of 
the  saints  they  wondered  at  the  power 
of  our  God. 

This  revival  resembles  a  great  burning 
wheel.  It  is  moving  in  a  circle  around 
Percy,  the  starting  point,  establishing  the 
altar  of  God  in  every  town.  At  all  these 
altars  the  fire  is  still  burning.  Souls  are 
being  saved  at  about  every  service.  The 


revival  fire  is  breaking  out  anew  in 
Willisville.  Bro.  Ferguson  is  in  charge 
there. 

Another  remarkable  thing,  that  hap¬ 
pened  at  Cutler,  was  the  dividing  of  the 
money  by  the  Lord’s  own  hand.  Near 
the  beginning  of  the  revival  Bro.  Wil¬ 
liams  suggested  that  I  should  have  about 
60  per  cent  of  the  offerings  since  I  had 
a  family  to  support.  I  said,  “I  will  leave 
that  up  to  vou.”  Then  I  said,  “You  just 
give  me  every  other  offering,”  and  sug¬ 
gested  that  each  should  keep  account  of 
the  money  he  received,  and  that  we 
should  compare  accounts  in  the  end  and 
make  such  changes  as  seemed  good  to 
us.  At  the  end  of  two  weeks  we  com¬ 
pared  accounts  and  found  that  the  Lord 
had  given  me  60  per  cent  of  the  money, 
for  I  had  $42  00  and  Bro.  Williams  had 
$28.00. 

Two  sinners  at  Cutler  were  brought  to 
the  Lord  through  a  dream.  A  miner  went 
to  sleep  in  the  mine  one  day  and  dreamed 
that  he  had  received  the  Holy  Ghost. 
The  sweet  memories  of  this  dream  creat¬ 
ed  a  hunger  in  his  heart  for  the  experi¬ 
ence  he  had  dreamed  about.  He  related 
his  dream  to  his  wife,  and  they  both 
came  to  the  altar  and  received  the  ex¬ 
perience  the  husband  had  dreamed  of. 

A  woman  requested  us  to  ask  the  Lord 
to  locate  her  boy  who  had  run  away  from 
home  several  months  before,  and  had 
never  written  to  her.  We  asked  the  Lord 
to  lay  his  hand  upon  the  heart  of  that 
boy,  and  to  trouble  him  night  and  day 
until  he  wrote  to  his  mother.  A  couple 
days  later  this  mother  came  to  us  with 
smiles,  saying,  “I  received  a  letter  from 
my  boy.” 

Written  at  Sparta,  Ill.,  Feb.  1,  1924. 


THE  FIRST  REVIVAL  AT  SPARTA,  ILL. 


The  revival  at  Sparta  was  a  continual 
fight  of  faith  from  the  beginning  to  the 
end,  but  we  were  conquerors  through  the 
power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  This  revival 
continued  for  eight  weeks  during  which 
time  more  than  a  hundred  persons  re- 
ce.ved  the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost. 

We  went  to  Sparta  with  but  one  pur¬ 
pose  in  view,  that  was  to  set  up  a  burn¬ 
ing  altar  unto  the  Lord  in  that  town, 
where  sinners  could  receive  salvation  and 
where  God’s  people  could  worship  Him 
in  the  Spirit.  Our  time  is  very  much 
like  the  time  of  the  prophet  Elijah.  The 
modern  pulpit  has  torn  down  God’s 
altars.  Very  few  of  the  churches  have 
altars  in  them  and  on  the  few  altars  that 
remain  the  fire  has  almost  ceased  to 
burn.  God  wants  a  burning  altar  set  up 
in  every  town. 


We  had  heard  before  we  went  to 
Sparta  that  the  Miners’  Union  would  let 
us  have  their  hall  to  preach  in.  While  on 
our  way  to  Sparta  I  said  to  Bro.  Thomas, 
‘When  we  arrive  at  Sparta  let  us  not  go 
out  and  try  to  find  a  hall  ourselves  to 
preach  in,  but  let  us  first  spend  two  hours 
in  prayer  and  let  us  ask  God  to  procure 
a  hall  for  us.”  We  spent  the  two  hours 
in  prayer  and  then  went  out  on  the  street. 
We  did  not  go  far  before  we  met  a 
stranger  who  came  up  to  Bro.  Thomas 
and  said  to  him,  “I  am  the  man  you  are 
looking  for.  I  am  a  trustee  of  the  miners’ 
hall,  you  men  are  to  hold  meeting  in  our 
hall.  I  have  a  key,  follow  me  and  I 
will  show  you  the  hall.”  He  led  us 
across  the  street  and  up  into  a  large  sec¬ 
ond  story  room,  furnished  ready  for  serv¬ 
ices,  and  told  us  we  could  have  the  room 


THE  FIRST  REVIVAL  AT  SPARTA,  ILL. 


9 


as  long  as  we  needed  it  for  our  revival 
services  for  merely  paying  for  the  light¬ 
ing  and  heating  of  the  room.  He  told 
us,  however,  that  the  hall  was  rented  out 
for  a  dance  every  Friday  night.  I  did 
not  like  the  thought  of  stopping  the  re¬ 
vival  one  night  in  the  week  for  the  dance, 
but  the  Lord  told  me  to  accept  whait  was 
given  to  us,  and  we  did  so  and  set  a  night 
to  begin  the  revival.  By  the  third  night 
of  the  revival  the  hall  was  filled  wilth 
peop’e.  Soon  the  Holy  Ghost  had  creat¬ 
ed  such  an  awakening  among  the  people 
that  our  hall  would  not  hold  the  people 
that  wanted  to  attend  the  services.  At 
some  of  the  services  many  were  turned 
away  after  the  hall  was  packed  until  no 
standing  room  was  left. 

The  revival  did  not  continue  long  be¬ 
fore  we  saw  that  the  dance  was  a  great 
hinderance  to  the  rervival,  so  we  asked 
God  to  burst  up  the  dance  and  take  it 
out  of  the  way,  so  we  could  have  the 
continual  use  of  the  hall.  The  next  time 
the  dancers  met  the  dance  broke  up  with 
a  rough  house.  About  twenty-five  per¬ 
sons  engaged  in  a  free  for  all  fight.  The 
man  in  charge  of  the  dances  said  he 
would  not  conduct  any  more  dances,  and 
the  union  at  their  next  meeting  passed  a 
resolution  that  the  hall  should  not  be  let 
for  dances  any  more;  and  I  received  word 
from  the  union  that  no  more  dances 
would  interfere  with  the  revival  services. 

I  publicly  announced  when  I  opened 
revival  services  that  we  had  come  to 
Sparta  to  set  up  a  burning  altar  unto  the 
Lord,  and  that  if  any  church  in  Sparta 
wanted  this  altar  we  would  set  it  up  in 
their  church,  if  they,  clergy  and  laity, 
would  accept  the  Holy  Ghost.  But  I  told 
them  plainly  that  if  none  of  the  churches 
would  accept  the  Holy  Ghost,  the  Holy 
Ghost  would  set  up  His  burning  altar 
outside  of  all  of  them,  and  a  new  church 
organization  would  spring  into  existance. 
And  so  it  came  to  pass. 

I  have  made  this  offer  to  the  churches 
in  every  town  where  we  have  gone  to  set 
up  the  altar  of  God.  But  as  yet,  no 
church  has  asked  to  have  God’s  burning 
affar  set  up  in  their  midst,  nor  offered  to 
accept  the  Holy  Ghost,  consequently, 
three  new  assemblies  have  sprung  into 
existence.  And  it  seems  that  God  is  go¬ 
ing  to  supply  these  altars  with  attend¬ 
ants,  for  four  preachers  have  received  the 
baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  these  re¬ 
vivals,  one  at  Willisville,  one  at  Cutler 
and  two  at  Sparta. 

The  fire  continues  to  burn  on  all  these 
altars.  At  Willisville  the  number  of  the 
Spirit-filled  saints  has  about  doubled 
since  the  revival  closed.  About  450  per¬ 
sons  have  received  the  baptism  of  the 


Holy  Ghost  in  all  these  places  this 
winter. 

When  I  went  to  Sparta  I  told  the  peo¬ 
ple  to  got  their  Bibles  and  read  the  Act 
of  the  Apo'stles  through  while  they  were 
attending  the  revival,  and  assured  them 
that  if  they  did  so  they  would  believe  in 
Pentecost,  for  they  would  see  the  Acts 
of  the  Apostles  reproduced  before  their 
eyes.  God  backed  up  this  statement  with 
the  power  of  His  Holy  Spirit,  and  many 
signs  and  wonders  were  wrought  before 
the  peOp’e.  The  people  became  so  deeply 
interested  that  the  eyes  of  all  were  con¬ 
tinually  fixed  upon  the  altar  to  see  what 
wonder  the  Holy  Ghost  would  do  next. 

A  goodly  number  of  people  were  healed 
of  divers  ailments.  Eleven  deaf  people 
were  healed,  ten  during  the  revival  and 
one  a  week  after  the  revival  closed.  Two 
of  these  deaf  people  were  healed  without 
prayer.  1  merely  laid  my  hand  on  their 
heads  and  the  power  of  God  immediately 
healed  them.  One  of  these  was  a  woman 
who  had  been  entirely  deaf  in  her  right 
ear  for  a  year  and  a  half;  the  other  a 
little  girl  eight  years  old  who  was  en¬ 
tirely  deaf  in  her  left  ear. 

Two  of  the  other  healings  of  deafness 
were  wrought  in  such  a  manner  as  to 
throw  light  on  God’s  way  of  doing  things. 
O'ne  of  these  was  a  woman  who  did  not 
believe  in  Pentecost  nor  in  divine  healing. 
She  had  come  to  the  meeting  and  some 
of  the  saints  tried  to  persuade  her  to 
come  forward  for  healing.  She  refused 
and  started  to  leave  the  room.  A 
brother  persuaded  her  to  come  for  heal¬ 
ing  by  promising  her  that  he  would  do 
the  talking.  She  said,  “I  will  go  and  try 
it,”  but  she  did  not  expect  to  receive  her 
healing.  She  had  heard  no  sound  in  her 
left  ear,  she  said,  for  four  or  five  years. 
When  I  closed  my  eyes  and  laid  my 
hands  upon  her  head  I  felt  that  the 
human  spirits  of  certain  brethren  sitting 
near  was  a  hinderance  to  the  healing,  so 
I  moved  the  deaf  woman  a  few  feet  away 
from  everybody.  When  the  deaf  spirit 
was  commanded  in  the  name  of  Jesus  to 
come  out  of  her,  it  came  out  and  in¬ 
stantly  her  hearing  was  restored.  When 
the  woman  found  that  she  could  hear  the 
tick  of  the  watch  in  her  deaf  ear  she 
burst  into  tears,  and  was  so  overcome 
that  for  some  time  she  could  not  speak. 
As  soon  as  she  was  able  to  speak,  I  said 
to  her,  “Now  sister  praise  the  Lord  for 
unstopping  your  deaf  car.”  “I  cannot 
praise  the  Lord,”  said  she,  “for  I  am  a 
sinner.”  “Then  get  down  at  the  altar,” 
said  I,  “and  give  your  heart  unto  the 
Lord.”  “I  don’t  understand  your  kind 
of  religion,”  said  she.  “You  understand 
how  to  confess  your  sins  to  God,  don’t 
you.”  said  1.  “Yes,”  said  she.  “Then,” 


10 


THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


I  said,  “kneel  at  the  altar  and  confess 
your  sins  to  God,  and  I  will  send  some 
one  to  help  you,  and  you  will  soon  be 
saved.  She  knelt  at  the  altar  and  in  a 
few  minutes  was  saved.  And  immediate¬ 
ly  after  she  had  received  God’s  peace  in 
her  heart,  the  Holy  Ghost  fell  upon  her 
without  prayer.  She  fell  backwards  on 
the  floor  as  if  she  were  dead.  In  a  few 
minutes  she  awoke  speaking  with  ton¬ 
gues.  Then  she  confessed  to  the  saints 
that  she  had  spoken  evil  of  them  and  had 
made  fun  of  them. 

Another  sister  who  came  for  healing  of 
deafness  was  prayed  for  three  times  be¬ 
fore  she  was  healed.  She  was  partly  deaf 
in  her  right  ear.  I  fully  anticipated  her 
healing  the  first  time  she  came  for  heal¬ 
ing  and  was  greatly  disappointed  when  I 
saw  that  the  deaf  spirit  refused  to  come 
out  of  her.  She  claimed  to  be  saved  and  said 
she  wanted  her  baptism.  Several  weeks 
later  she  came  for  healing  again,  but  the 
deaf  spirit  again  refused  to  come  out  of 
her.  Then  it  came  to  me  that  the  deaf 
spirit  was  fortified  in  another  spirit  that 
was  in  her  and  I  told  her  so.  It  was  a 
deceiving  devil  that  was  in  her.  When 
this  spirit  was  commanded  in  Jesus’  name 
to  come  out  of  her,  it  stiffened  her  body 
and  came  out  of  her.  She  fell  at  the  altar 
and  confessed  that  she  was  not  saved. 
On  the  last  night  of  the  revival  she  was 
one  of  ten  persons  that  received  the  bap¬ 
tism  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  A  week  later 
she  asked  me  if  I  would  pray  again  for 
her  healing.  I  said,  “Yes,  sister,  and  I 
am  sure  that  everything  is  out  of  the  way 
now  and  that  you  will  receive  your  heal¬ 
ing.”  This  time  the  deaf  spirit  came  out 
of  her  and  she  was  instantly  and  perfect¬ 
ly  healed. 

The  visions  given  in  trances  at  Sparta 
were  wonderful.  One  young  man  was 
caught  up  to  heaven  and  took  a  walk 
with  Jesus  along  one  of  the  streets  of 
heaven.  A  young  woman  came  out  of  a 
trance  weeping  and  saying,  “I  have  been 
in  heaven  and  O!  it  is  such  a  clean  place. 
There  is  not  one  bit  of  dirt  there.  I  don’t 
want  to  miss  heaven.  And  if  I  thought 
the  Lord  would  miss  me  when  He  comes 
I  would  want  to  go  back  to  heaven  right 
now,  this  very  minute.” 

A  little  girl  eight  years  old  saw  Jesus 
coming  in  a  light  blue  cloud.  She  said 
God  was  with  Jesus  on  the  cloud.  She 
said  also  that  there  were  many  angels 
with  God  and  Jesus  on  the  cloud.  From 
this  vision  it  appears  that  God  is  going 
to  come  with  Jesus.  This  fact  the  Bible 
most  certainly  teaches,  for  it  says,  “Look¬ 
ing  for  the  blessed  hope,  and  the  glorious 
appearing  of  the  great  God  and  our  Sav¬ 
iour  Jesus  Christ.” — Tit.  2:13. 

A  little  twelve-year-old  girl  was  caught 


up  to  heaven  and  saw  God  sitting  on  his 
throne  and  Jesus  sitting  by  the  side  of 
God  on  His  (God’s)  throne.  She  said* 
Jesus  was  sitting  on  the  right  hand  side 
of  God.  A  young  man  saw  also  this  same 
vision. 

A  little  boy  six  years  old  received  the 
baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost  and  fell  into 
a  trance,  seeing,  apparently,  the  vision 
that  John  the  Revelator  saw  under  the 
opening  of  the  sixth  seal.  See  Rev.  6:12. 
The  child  said  the  moon  was  red  like 
blood  and  the  sun  was  not  bright.  Other 
visions  were  given  in  these  meetings  but 
we  have  not  space  to  relate  them  all. 

Five  persons  received  the  Holy 
Ghost  during  the  Sparta  revival  without 
seeking  for  it.  God  just  poured  out  His 
Spirit  on  them.  A  miner  who  lived  in 
Coulterville,  several  miles  from  Sparta, 
was  working  in  a  mine  in  Sparta.  After 
he  had  been  attending  our  meetings  dur¬ 
ing  the  week,  he  went  home  on  Saturday 
night  and  related  to  his  wife  the  wonder¬ 
ful  things  which  he  had  seen  and  heard 
in  our  meetings.  They  were  both  saved 
and  the  wife  as  well  as  the  husband  at 
once  became  deeply  interested  in  Pente¬ 
cost.  When  they  arose  the  next  morn¬ 
ing,  while  the  woman  was  dressing  her¬ 
self,  the  Holy  Ghost  fell  upon  her  and 
she  began  to  talk  in  tongues  and  dance 
in  the  Spirit.  Up  to  this  time  this  woman 
had  never  attended  a  Pentecostal  meet¬ 
ing.  The  husband  who  carried  the  glad 
tidings  of  Pentecost  home  to  his  wife, 
afterwards  received  the  Holy  Ghost  wffile 
sitting  in  our  meeting.  He  said  a  few 
minutes  before  the  Spirit  fell  upon  him 
that  he  wanted  his  baptism  but  was  not 
ready  to  seek  it  yet. 

The  dancing  in  the  Spirit  continued 
during  the  Sparta  revival  very  much  the 
same  as  in  the  former  revivals.  A  little 
girl  ten  years  old  danced  for  a  long  time 
in  one  of  the  services.  On  the  way  home 
that  night  she  said  to  her  mother,  “I 
wonder  why  they  did  not  have  any  prayer 
in  the  meeting  tonight.”  She  had  danced 
during  the  prayer  service  and  knew  noth¬ 
ing  about  it.  After  this  I  asked  this 
child  to  describe  her  experience  to  me 
when  she  began  to  dance.  She  said, 
“Bro.  Schell,  I  never  know  when  I  com¬ 
mence  to  dance.  The  first  I  know  about 
it  is  when  the  power  leaves  me  and  I 
find  n^self  out  on  the  floor.” 

God  gave  the  people  of  Sparta  a  proof 
that  the  dancing  in  the  worship  of  the 
Pentecostal  people  wTas  of  Him.  One 
night  while  I  was  preaching  in  the  hall, 
a  stranger  came  to  the  door  and  called 
for  Bro.  Thomas  The  stranger  said  to 
Bro.  Thomas,  “The  two  Shaw  girls  that 
are  rooming  at  my  house  were  making 
fun  of  you  people  and  the  power  has 


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fallen  upon  both  of  them,  one  of  them  is 
dancing  and  cannot  stop,  and  the  other  is 
lying  on  the  floor  and  can’t  get  up.  The 
Holy  Ghost  would  not  release  these  girls 
until  some  of  the  saints  went  down  to 
them  and  prayed  for  them.  These  girls 
came  to  the  meeting  that  night  and  came 
to  the  altar  and  confessed  their  sins. 
Then  the  power  fell  upon  the  one  that 
had  danced  down  at  home,  and  she 
danced  in  our  meeting.  She  had  been 
brought  up  strictly  in  the  Presbyterian 
faith  and  had  never  been  to  a  worldly 
dance,  but  the  Holy  Ghost  made  her 
dance  like  an  experienced  dancer.  The 
experience  of  the  Shaw  girls  caused  the 
fear  of  God  to  fall  upon  all  the  people 
of  Sparta,  and  they  became  afraid  to 
make  fun  of  the  Pentecostal  people. 

The  speaking  with  tongues  was  greatly 
used  of  the  Lord  during  this  revival  as  a 
soul-winning  factor.  A  Baptist  preacher 
was  brought  into  pentecost  by  a  single 
sentence  spoken  in  tongues  by  one  of  the 
sisters,  although  he  did  not  understand 
what  had  been  spoken.  The  preacher 
said,  “That  sounded  a  little  too  smooth  to 
be  a  fake.”  He  came  back  to  the  serv¬ 
ices  the  following  night  and  received  his 
baptism. 

In  one  of  the  night  services  a  young 
man  who  came  through  into  the  baptism 
spoke  in  tongues  for  two  hours  and  a 
half.  On  his  way  home  the  power  fell 
upon  him  again  and  he  talked  in  tongues 
all  the  way  home  and  continued  to  talk 
in  tongues  until  1 :30  at  night.  The  next 
day  the  power  fell  on  him  again  at  8:30 
A.  M.  and  he  spoke  in  tongues  again  till 
12:30  P.  M.  The  neighbors  were  called 
in  to  hear  him  speaking  in  tongues  .and 
one  of  the  neighbors  fell  under  conviction 
and  got  saved  and  baptized  in  the  Holy 
Ghost,  and  began  to  speak  in  tongues 
also. 

In  another  night  service  another  young 
man  who  received  the  baptism  spoke  in 
tongues  for  more  than  two  hours.  A 
young  man  present  said  he  was  speaking 
in  the  French  tongue  and  interpreted 
what  he  was  saying.  The  message  fore¬ 
casted  many  things  that  were  fulfilled 
afterwards  in  our  services. 

On  the  last  night  of  the  revival  a  sister 
who  came  to  the  altar  to  receive  her  bap¬ 
tism,  said  to  those  kneeling  by  her,  “I 
am  going  to  stay  here  until  I  come 
through.”  She  praised  the  Lord  for  four 
hours  before  the  power  fell.  About  thirty 
minutes  before  she  came  through  her 
tongue  stiffened  and  stuck  out  of  her 
mouth  about  two  inches.  She  made  re¬ 
peated  efforts  to  put  her  tongue  back  into 
her  mouth  but  could  not.  When  the 
power  fell  she  was  changed  into  a  real 
foreigner.  She  talked  in  tongues,  count¬ 


ed  her  fingers  and  her  money  in  the  for¬ 
eign  language  that  had  been  given  to  her, 
danced  in  the  Spirit,  took  down  her  hair 
and  put  it  up  in  an  old-fashioned  twist 
like  the  foreign  women  wear  and  acted  in 
every  way  like  a  foreigner.  She  started 
down  the  street  singing  and  talking  in 
tongues.  She  is  a  widow  and  lives  with 
another  lady.  She  went  into  her  home 
acting  like  a  foreigner  and  talking  her 
foreign  language  to  the  lady  who  lived 
with  her.  The  lady  was  frightened  for 
she  thought  the  sister  had  gone  crazy 
while  she  was  at  church.  The  sister  was 
unable  to  speak  English  again  until  the 
next  morning.  Some  of  the  sinners  who 
witnessed  this  baptism  said,  “Surely  this 
is  the  power  of  God.” 

While  the  revival  at  Sparta  was  in 
progress,  news  reached  us  that  the  New 
Issue  had  broken  into  the  church  at 
Cutler.  This  greatly  added  to  the  bur¬ 
den  of  our  hearts.  I  went  to  the  Lord  in 
prayer  and  said  to  Him,  “God  you  made 
me  come  down  into  this  part  of  the  coun¬ 
try  and  preach  the  gospel,  and  now  that 
some  fine  flocks  of  sheep  have  been 
raised  up,  I  cannot  believe  that  you  are 
going  to  let  the  wolves  devour  them.  I 
cannot  consent  for  the  wolves  to  have  a 
single  one  of  these  lambs.  I  therefore 
ask  you  to  chain  these  wolves  and  ship 
them  out  cf  Cutler  immediately.”  I  asked 
a  brother  to  agree  with  me  in  this  prayer. 
The  wolves  left  Cutler  on  the  next  train. 

O'ther  New  Issue  preachers  went  to 
Cutler  immediately  and  endeavored  to 
devour  the  flock  of  God.  These  also  were 
chained  and  shipped  out  of  Cutler  in  an¬ 
swer  to  prayer. 

Then  I  asked  God  to  break  up  the 
wolf’s  nest  entirely  for  the  New  Issue 
had  captured  the  mission  in  Cutler.  Im¬ 
mediately  the  New  Issue  lost  the  building 
which  they  were  using  for  a  mission. 
Soon  after  this  all  the  saints  in  Cutler 
came  together  in  orthodoxy  and  unity. 

While  the  New  Issue  spirit  was  work¬ 
ing  in  Cutler,  I  asked  God  to  show  the 
saints  in  Cutler,  by  a  vision  that  the  New 
Issue  doctrines  were  wrong.  About  the 
time  this  prayer  was  offered  up,  a  sister 
in  Cutler  fell  into  a  trance,  and  saw  Jesus 
hanging  upon  the  cross.  She  saw  Cod 
also  above  Jesus.  Then  she  saw  God 
turn  His  back  upon  Jesus.  Then  she 
said  to  God,  “God,  why  did  you  turn  your 
back  upon  Jesus?”  In  answer  to  this 
question,  God  said  to  her,  “I  could  not 
look  upon  Christ  while  He  was  being 
crucified.” 

After  the  close  of  the  revival  at  Sparta 
the  writer  spent  several  weeks  visiting  in 
several  places.  At  Alton,  Ill.,  the  Lord 
opened  a  deaf  ear  for  a  sister  who  had 
been  totally  deaf  in  one  ear  since  she  was 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


twelve  years  old.  The  sister  said  she 
spent  much  of  the  next  day  with  her 
other  ear  closed,  listening  to  the  singing 
of  her  canary  bird  through  her  restored 
ear. 

At  Cutler,  Ill.,  the  Lord  opened  partial¬ 
ly  deaf  ears  for  a  child  without  prayer. 

At  Willisville,  Ill.,  the  Lord  healed  two 
deaf  people  without  prayer. 

At  Chester,  Ill. ,  the  Lord  healed  two 
deaf  people.  One  of  these  a  sister 
seventy-five  years  old,  was  kept  awake 
the  first  night  after  she  was  healed,  for 
two  hours,  by  the  ticking  of  the  clock. 


The  clock  had  to  be  removed  from  the 
room  before  she  could  go  to  sleep. 

At  Fostoria,  Ohio,  the  Lord  put  a  new 
ear-drum  in  a  woman’s  ear.  The  drum 
of  her  ear  had  been  bursted  in  an  opera¬ 
tion. 

After  visiting  the  saints  in  the  above 
mentioned  towns,  and  in  others  not  men¬ 
tioned,  the  Lord  led  me  back  to  Sparta 
to  hold  another  revival.  Our  next  report 
will  give  an  account  of  the  second  re¬ 
vival  at  Sparta. 

Written  at  Cutler,  Ill.,  June  25,  1924. 


THE  SECOND  REVIVAL  AT  SPARTA 


The  second  revival  at  Sparta  continued 
for  about  eight  weeks,  during  which  time 
about  fifty  persons  received  the  baptism 
of  the  Holy  Ghost.  Our  tent  leaked  and 
the  continual  rains  during  the  months  of 
May  and  June  greatly  hindered  our 
meetings. 

In  some  respects  the  manifestations  of 
the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  were  greater 
than  in  any  of  the  former  revivals.  Danc¬ 
ing  in  the  Spirit,  although  there  was  a 
great  deal  of  this  by  times,  was  not  the 
principal  manifestation  of  God’s  power. 
The  visions  given  in  trances  were,  won¬ 
derful. 

A  little  boy  was  caught  up  to  heaven, 
in  the  very  presence  of  God,  and  was 
permitted  to  bow  before  the  throne  of 
God  and  worship  Him.  A  boy  thirteen 
years  old  was  caught  up  to  heaven  and 
saw  Jesus  sitting  on  a  very  high  throne, 
and  all  the  angels,  a  great  host  of  them, 
were  dancing  around  His  throne.  The 
boy  went  up  to  Jesus  and  asked  Him  if 
he  might  remain  up  in  heaven.  Jesus 
gave  him  a  kind  look  and  said  to  him, 
“No,  it  is  not  time  for  you  to  remain  up 
here  now,  you  must  go  back  to  the 
world.”  Several  persons  saw  the  lake  of 
fire  mentioned  in  the  book  of  Revelation. 
A  young  lady  who  was  saved  and  bap¬ 
tized  in  the  Spirit  in  the  same  service, 
after  she  had  spoken  in  tongues  for  some 
time,  fell  into  a  trance  and  was  carried 
to  the  brink  of  the  lake  of  fire.  She 
stood  so  close  to  the  fire  that  her  skirts 
were  already  on  fire.  Then  Jesus  came 
down  in  a  cloud  and  picked  her  up  and 
carried  her  to  a  place  of  safety.  A  young 
man  saw  the  lake  of  fire  and  when  the 
devil  was  about  to  throw  him  into  it, 
Jesus  came  to  his  rescue,  took  him  by 
the  hand,  led  him  away  from  the  lake  of 
fire,  and  through  a  narrow  gate,  and  then 
disappeared. 

Prophecies  were  also  given  during  this 
meeting;  some  of  them  have  already  been 
fulfilled,  and  others  pertain  to  the  future. 


One  brother  had  a  vision  of  our  tent 
blowing  down.  Three  weeks  after  he  re¬ 
lated  this  vision,  the  tent  was  blown 
down  by  a  gale  just  as  the  brother  had 
seen  in  the  vision.  This  same  brother,  in 
another  vision,  saw  something  like  a 
dragon  come  down  from  heaven,  and 
blow  its  breath  upon  four  countries,  and 
immediately  the  people  in  these  four 
countries  all  arose  and  began  to  fight  one 
another.  Then  a  very  large  man  came 
near  the  dragon  and  slew  him  with  a 
sword.  Then  all  the  people  in  these 
countries  stopped  fighting  and  fell  upon 
their  knees  and  began  to  worship.  Then 
some  one  slew  the  big  man..  The  soldiers 
in  this  war  were  described  as  short,  heavy 
set,  dark  complectioned  men,  wearing 
black  gowns,  with  white  cuffs  and  collars, 
and  black  crosses  on  their  foreheads. 
This  brother  has  seen  armies  in  his  vis¬ 
ions  of  several  nationalities.  In  one  vis¬ 
ion  he  saw  an  American  army  which 
seemed  to  have  been  hurriedly  collected, 
for  some  of  the  soldiers  had  no  uniforms. 
In  another  vision  he  saw  a  battleship 
sink. 

The  prophecy  was  given  in  one  of  the 
night  services  that  ever}*-  nation  in  the 
world  will  be  in  war  before  the  Lord 
comes. 

During  this  revival  some  of  the  saints 
got  into  what  I  would  call  walking 
trances.  They  were  entirely  unconscious 
of  their  surroundings.  In  some  instances 
their  spirits  were  up  in  heaven  seeing 
marvelous  things,  while  the  Holy  Ghost 
was  using  their  bodies  to  do  strange  and 
wonderful  things  in  our  meetings. 

At  one  time  the  interest  dwindled,  be¬ 
cause  of  the  almost  continuous  rainfall. 
For  several  nights  no  one  had  been  at  the 
altar.  There  was  a  poor  outlook  for  fur¬ 
ther  success.  Under  such  conditions  we 
started  our  worship  one  night  with  only 
a  couple  dozen  of  the  sinners  present. 
Our  tent  stood  on  the  main  street  of  the 
town,  and  there  was  a  continuous  string 


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of  automobiles  loaded  with  pleasure  seek¬ 
ers  running  both  ways  past  our  tent. 
Soon  after  the  song  service  began  the 
Spirit  began  to  work  wonderfully  in  the 
saints.  Some  began  to  dance  in  the  Spirit, 
and  one  little  girl  eleven  years  old,  led 
the  saints  by  the  hand  one  by  one  until 
she  had  seated  us  all  in  a  large  circle. 
Then  one  by  one  she  led  us  by  the  hand 
into  the  middle  of  the  circle  and  told  us 
to  dance.  She  led  me  out  twice.  I  felt 
provoked,  but  knowing  that  the  child  was 
being  controked  by  the  Holy  Spirit  I  felt 
afraid  to  oppose  it.  I  said  to  the  child 
the  second  time  she  told  me  to  dance,  “I 
can’t  dance.”  “Sit  down,  then,”  said  the 
child.  Then  the  child  placed  the  saints 
into  a  line,  single  file,  and  placing  herself 
at  the  head  of  the  line  ordered  us  to 
march.  She  was  dancing  all  the  while. 
She  marched  us  out  of  and  into  the  tent, 
and  in  circles  outside  the  tent  for  about 
thirty  minutes.  The  brethren  say  that 
every  automobile  that  passed  while  the 
march  continued  stopped  and  unloaded  its 
occupants.  Our  tent  was  filled  with  peo¬ 
ple,  and  a  great  crowd  stood  around  the 
tent  that  could  not  have  gotten  into  it. 
I  gave  an  altar  call  and  six  persons  came 
to  the  altar.  One  of  these  was  led  to  the 
altar  by  the  little  girl  while  she  was 
under  the  power.  The  one  she  led  to  the 
altar  was  saved  and  filled  with  the  Spirit, 
and  arose  from  the  altar  talking  in 
tongues. 

When  the  child  awoke  from  her  trance 
she  said  she  had  been  up  in  heaven,  and 
that  we  had  all  been  up  in  heaven  with 
her,  dancing  and  flying  through  heaven. 
She  remembered  that  I  had  refused  to 


dance,  and  she  said  the  Lord  had  told  her 
that  He  was  going  to  punish  me. 

After  this  service  we  had  large  con¬ 
gregations  to  the  close  of  the  revival. 

On  the  following  Lord’s  day  we  held  a 
cottage  meeting  in  the  home  of  one  of  the 
brethren,  who  lived  on  a  farm  two  miles 
from  town.  The  little  child  was  in  the 
Spirit  again.  This  time  she  asked  us  all 
to  dance  again,  and  then  marched  us  out 
of  the  house,  and  then  around  the  house 
seven  times.  Then  we  went  into  the 
house,  and  had  an  altar  service,  and  two 
souls  were  saved. 

The  Lord  gave  uj  some  precious  heal¬ 
ings  during  this  revival.  A  few  deaf  peo¬ 
ple  were  healed.  In  one  instance  I  was 
called  to  the  bedside  of  an  old  woman 
who  was  under  the  care  of  a  doctor.  Her 
children  had  all  been  called  to  her  bed¬ 
side.  They  were  despairing  of  her  life. 
She  was  instantly  healed,  and  arose  and 
ate  her  supper. 

The  order  in  our  services  during  this 
revival  was  bad.  I  appealed  to  the  Mayor 
to  quell  the  rowdies  and  he  flatly  refused 
to  assist  us  in  any  way,  and  threatened 
to  arrest  me  himself  if  I  came  to  him 
any  more  for  protection.  He  told  me 
a'so  that  the  best  thing  I  could  do  was 
to  pull  down  my  tent  and  leave  the  town. 
The  Prosecuting  Attorney  for  the  state 
also  threatened  to  arrest  me  under  the 
charge  of  conducting  a  public  nuisance. 
These  men  seemed  not  to  know  that 
under  the  constitution  of  the  United 
States  the  free  exercise  of  religion  cannot 
be  hindered.  I  did  not  want  God  to  see 
a  yellow  streak  in  me,  so  I  continued  my 
meeting  until  I  felt  that  my  work  in  that 
place  was  finished. 


THE  FIRST  REVIVAL  AT  MARISSA 


While  the  news  of  the  revival  at  Percy 
was  spreading  through  all  the  towns, 
eight  automobile  loads  of  the  Salvation 
Army  people  from  Marissa  attended  that 
revival.  They  were  interested  and  one  of 
the  girls  raised  her  hand  for  prayer. 
Soon  after  this  an  Armenian  brother 
came  to  Marissa  and  he  and  Brother 
Lloyd  started  a  meeting  in  Marissa. 
Soon  the  power  began  to  fall  just  like  it 


was  falling  at  Percy.  In  a  short  time 
more  than  fifty  persons  received  the  Holy 
Ghost.  All  the  members  of  the  Salvation 
Army  in  Marissa  received  the  Holy  Ghost 
during  this  revival.  The  name  of  the 
Armenian  brother  who  was  the  principal 
figure  in  this  revival  is  hard  for  the 
American  people  to  speak;  everybody, 
therefore,  calls  him  by  his  first  name, 
Brother  Tony. 


THE  REVIVALS  AT  COULTERVILLE  AND  TILDEN 


About  the  time  that  the  second  revival 
at  Sparta  started,  Brother  Tony  opened 
a  revival  at  Coulterville,  and  Brothers 
Lirely  and  Thomas  opened  a  revival  at 
Tilden.  The  power  of  God  fell  in  these 
revivals  just  as  it  had  fallen  in  all  the 
other  towns.  There  was  dancing  in  the 
Spirit  and  many  other  manifestations  of 


the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  In  one  in¬ 
stance  two  little  girls  were  dancing  in  the 
Sp  rit  at  the  time  when  Bto.  Tony  wanted 
to  preach.  He  tried  to  stop  them,  but 
they  were  so  completely  under  the  power 
of  the  Holy  Ghost  that  he  could  not 
arouse  them.  For  this  act  God  turned 
His  face  away  from  Bro.  Tony  and  he 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


had  to  pray  several  days  to  get  back  into 
full  fellowship  with  God.  While  this  re¬ 
vival  at  Coulterville  was  going  on,  several 
children  were  playing  together  one  day. 
Some  of  these  children  had  received  the 
Holy  Ghost.  They  decided  to  stop  play¬ 
ing  and  have  a  meeting.  They  sang  and 
prayed  and  had  an  altar  service.  Two 
of  the  children  were  saved  and  received 
the  baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost,  with  the 
evidence  of  speaking  with  tongues.  Sev¬ 
eral  of  the  children  danced  in  the  Spirit. 

The  meeting  at  Tilden  was  a  hard 
fight.  Some  New  Issue  preachers  had 
set  up  a  tent  and  was  conducting  a  rival 
meeting.  We  all  asked  God  to  chain 
them  and  ship  them  out  of  town,  and 
He  did  it.  After  their  departure  all  the 


souls  which  had  been  deceived  by  them 
turned  to  orthodoxy.  The  New  Issue 
preachers  having  been  driven  out  of  Til¬ 
den  by  the  Holy  Ghost,  came  to  Sparta 
and  prepared  to  start  a  rival  meeting  in 
that  town.  I  asked  God  to  ship  them  out 
of  that  town  also  and  immediately  they 
fell  to  jangling  among  themselves  and 
left  the  town. 

At  Tilden  as  well  as  at  Coulterville 
there  were  marvelous  manifestations  of 
the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  A  deaf 
man  was  healed  at  Tilden,  whose  ear 
drum  had  been  destroyed  by  a  stroke  of 
lightning.  One  hundred  and  twenty-five 
persons  received  the  Holy  Ghost  in  the 
revival  at  Tilden  and  more  than  fifty  at 
Coulterville. 


THE  SECOND  REVIVAL  AT  COULTERVILLE 


At  the  close  of  the  second  revival  at 
Sparta,  the  writer  went  to  Coulterville 
where  he  held  revival  services  for  three 
weeks  During  this  time  about  twenty 
more  persons  received  the  Holy  Ghost. 

The  healing  power  manifested  in  this 
meeting  was  the  greatest  that  the  writer 
has  ever  witnessed.  About  fifteen  deaf 
persons  were  healed.  All  the  deaf  per¬ 
sons  who  came  for  healing  received  their 
healing,  except  one  woman  who  came  to 
the  house  where  I  was  stopping  and  re¬ 
quested  me  to  tell  no  one  that  she  had 
come  to  me  for  prayer.  She  even  re¬ 
quested  me  to  pray  in  an  undertone  so 
none  of  the  neighbors,  who  might  be 
sitting  on  their  porches,  would  hear.  The 
Lord  would  not  heal  her.  I  believe  that 
if  she  had  come  openly  and  without 
shame  she  would  have  been  healed.  Two 
persons  who  had  lost  the  sense  of  smell 
by  catarrhal  troubles  were  instantly 
healed  so  that  they  could  smell  perfect^. 
Two  were  healed  of  bad  eyes.  Others 
were  healed  of  lame  backs,  consumption 
and  other  troubles. 

The  dancing  in  the  Spirit  was  wonder¬ 
ful.  It  was  no  uncommon  thing  to  see 
twelve  or  fifteen  persons  dancing  at  a 
time,  and  nearly  all  of  the  dancers  were 
in  a  kind  of  trance  while  dancing.  They 
were  in  a  state  of  perfect  unconscious¬ 
ness,  and  retained  no  recollection  of  any¬ 
thing  that  took  place  in  the  meeting, 
while  they  were  dancing.  Sometimes 
they  were  even  caught  up  into  heaven 
and  saw  marvelous  visions,  while  their 
bodies  were  dancing  in  our  meetings. 
Some  were  in  a  state  of  semi-conscious¬ 
ness,  and  testify  that  their  eye-lids  were 
transparent,  so  that  they  could  see  per¬ 
fectly  with  their  eyes  shut. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  revival  the 
saints  were  afraid  the  dancers  would  hurt 


one  another.  When  one  of  them  would 
fall,  the  saints  would  throw  a  guard  line 
about  them  to  keep  others  from  hurting 
them.  They  also  guarded  them  from 
dancing  back  among  the  sinners.  I  told 
them  not  to  do  these  things,  and  ex¬ 
plained  to  them  that  they  were  hindering 
the  Holy  Ghost  from  working  some  of 
His  greatest  miracles.  They  kept  hands 
off  after  this,  and  from  that  time  the  real 
power  of  the  meeting  began.  Some  of 
the  dancers  would  fall  on  the  floor  and 
the  rest  would  dance  all  around  them  and 
over  them,  stepping  over  them  every  way, 
but  never  touching  them.  I  feel  safe  in 
saying  that  I  have  witnessed  such  scenes 
a  hundred  times  in  the  past  few  months. 

Nearly  all  the  seekers  during  this  re¬ 
vival  were  brought  to  the  altar  by  those 
who  were  dancing  in  the  Spirit.  They 
would  dance  back  into  the  audience,  lead 
them  forward,  and  make  them  kneel.  In 
one  instance  I  saw  a  woman  led  to  the 
altar,  in  this  way,  four  times  in  one  serv¬ 
ice.  The  first  three  times  she  immediate¬ 
ly  arose  from  the  altar,  and  returned  to 
her  seat,  laughing;  but  the  fourth  time 
she  burst  into  tears  as  she  fell  upon  her 
knees  at  the  altar.  Before  she  arose  from 
the  aUar  this  time  she  was  saved.  At 
another  time  I  saw  two  little  girls  who 
were  under  the  power,  have  hold  of  a 
man,  one  of  each  hand,  trying  to  pull 
him  to  the  altar.  He  refused  to  follow 
them,  and  while  they  were  tugging  at 
him,  the  Holy  Ghost  knocked  him  down, 
and  he  fell  head’ong  in  a  trance.  When 
he  came  to  he  was  weeping  and  confess¬ 
ing  his  sins.  He  had  seen  a  vision  which 
caused  him  to  give  his  heart  to  God. 

At  the  beginning  of  this  revival  the 
people  of  Coulterville  were  filled  with 
prejudice  against  the  Pentecostal  people, 
consequently  the  congregations  were 


THE  SECOND  REVIVAL  AT  COULTERVILLE 


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small.  To  make  matters  worse  a  carnival 
came  to  town  the  second  week  of  the 
revival.  Very  few  beside  our  own  people 
attended  our  services  any  more.  I  asked 
God  one  day  to  fill  our  hall  with  people, 
and  that  night  He  did  it.  There  was 
no  more  than  a  dozen  at  our  service  that 
night  at  the  beginning.  We  began  to 
sing  and  soon  the  power  began  to  fall 
on  some  of  the  children,  and  they  began 
to  dance  and  lead  one  another  around  by 
the  hand.  Finally  a  little  girl  twelve 
years  old  who  was  under  the  power 
caused  all  the  children  and  young  people 
to  join  hands.  Then  placing  herself  at 
the  head  of  the  procession  she  pulled 
them  towards  the  door.  She  led  them 
down  the  steps  to  the  sidewalk.  She 
danced  upon  every  step  as  she  descended, 
with  her  eyes  closed,  while  she  was  in  a 
state  of  perfect  unconsciousness.  When 
the  procession  reached  the  sidewalk  they 
were  broken  up  by  several  others  falling 
under  the  power  and  beginning  to  dance. 
Eventually  the  Spirit  divided  them  into 
three  companies  with  a  little  girl  at  the 
head  of  each  company.  These  companies 
following  their  leaders  began  to  parade 
the.  streets  in  different  directions,  dancing 
and  leaping  and  shouting  the  praises  of 
God.  The  people  from  all  directions 
came  running  to  see  what  was  going  on. 
The  people  all  left  the  carnival  to  follow 
the  paraders. 

We  that  were  left  in  the  hall  continued 
the  services.  We  could  hear  the  paraders 
shouting  in  different  directions.  The  parade 
lasted  about  an  hour;  then  all  the  com¬ 
panies  returned  to  the  hall  bringing  so 
many  people  with  them,  that  our  large 
hall  was  filled.  There  was  also  a  great 
crowd  in  the  streets  around  our  hall. 
We  had  large  crowds  after  this  until  the 
revival  closed. 

While  the  parade  was  going  on  the 
leaders  of  the  parties,  who  continued  in 
their  trances  until  the  parade  was  ended, 
when  they  met  a  sinner  would  invite  him 
to  join  hands  with  them  and  take  part 
in  the  march.  Usually  they  fled  from 
them  in  fear,  but  three  sinners  accepted 
the  invitation,  and  marched  with  them 
until  they  returned  to  the  hall.  One  of 
these  went  to  the  altar  that  night  and 
gave  his  heart  to  God. 

There  were  some  beautiful  visions 
given  in  this  revival.  A  young  woman 
fifteen  years  old  fell  into  a  trance  and 
saw  the  coming  of  the  Lord,  and  the  rap¬ 
ture.  She  saw  the  dead  saints  arise  from 
their  graves  and  the  living  saints  caught 
up  with  the  resurrected  saints  to  meet 
the  Lord  in  the  air.  She  was  herself  a 
member  of  the  raptured  company.  They 
then  went  with  the  Lord  Jesus  to 
heaven,  While  the  saints  w’ere  passing 


through  the  gate  into  heaven,  some  of 
the  angels  were  playing  music  on  their 
harps,  and  the  rest  were  singing.  And 
when  all  the  saints  had  passed  through 
the  gate  into  heaven  all  the  angels  arose 
and  began  to  dance. 

On  the  night  of  the  parade  a  little  girl, 
while  in  a  trance  took  up  the  offering 
for  us.  She  passed  the  offering  box  to 
every  body  in  the  hall,  and  when  she 
awoke  from  her  trance  she  had  no  recol¬ 
lections  of  any  thing  she  had  done  while 
in  the  Spirit.  The  child  that  took  up  the 
offering  was  the  one  through  whom  the 
parade  was  started.  This  child  was  danc¬ 
ing  outside  the  hall,  on  the  sidewalk, 
when  the  pastor  arose  and  announced 
that  we  would  now  take  up  the  offering. 
After  he  made  this  announcement,  he 
made  a  speech  for  a  few  minutes,  during 
which  time  the  little  girl  danced  up  the 
steps  into  our  second  story  hall  and  up 
to  the  pulpit,  and  picking  up  the  offering 
box,  proceeded  to  pass  it  before  the  peo¬ 
ple. 

There  were  present  in  one  of  the  serv¬ 
ices  a  man  and  his  wife;  both  of  whom 
had  bpen  healed  by  the  Lord  in  our  meet¬ 
ings.  The  man  had  had  his  sense  of 
smell  restored  and  the  woman  had  had  a 
bursted  ear-drum  healed.  They  both  lent 
strongly  towards  Pentecost.  A  young 
woman  in  a  trance  got  a  Testament  from 
the  pulpit,  danced  over  to  these  people, 
opened  the  testament,  and  pointed  out  to 
them  Acts  26:28,  for  them  to  read.  “Al¬ 
most  thou  persuadest  me  to  be  a  Christ¬ 
ian.”  The  woman  took  the  Testament 
out  of  the  girl’s  hand,  closed  it  and  hand¬ 
ed  it  back  to  her.  She  again  with  her 
eyes  closed  and  the  book  upside  down 
to  herself,  opened  the  book  and  pointed 
out  to  them  the  same  verse  again.  The 
man  then  said,  “That  is  enough  to  con¬ 
vince  anybody.” 

During  this  revival  little  children,  from 
eight  to  twelve  years  of  age,  while  under 
the  power,  frequently  led  me  out  on  the 
floor  and  told  me  to  dance.  But  of  course 
I  did  not  dance.  One  night  a  little  girl 
under  the  power,  after  trying  in  vain  to 
make  me  dance,  said  to  me,  in  a  firm 
tone,  “God  will  punish  you.”  I  believed 
that  God  had  spoken  to  me  by  the  mouth 
of  this  child,  but  how  could  I  dance? 
I  had  never  danced  in  my  life.  I  was  in 
a  trial.  It  seemed  hard  for  God  to  com¬ 
mand  me  to  do  something  that  I  did  not 
know  how  to  do,  and  then  threaten  to 
punish  me  for  not  doing  it. 

A  couple  days  after  this,  I  became  af¬ 
flicted  with  a  very  bad  affliction  in  my 
right  knee.  It  was  the  return  of  an  old 
affliction,  which  the  Lord  had  healed  me 
of,  about  a  year  and  a  half  before,  and 
which  had  been  caused  by  an  injury  re- 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


ceived  in  a  shop,  several  years  ago.  I 
was  lame  all  forenoon.  But  in  the  after¬ 
noon  I  said  to  God  in  my  prayer,  “God, 
why  did  you  let  that  affliction  come  back 
on  me?”  Then  the  thought  occurred  to 
me  that  this  was  the  punishment  I  was 
to  receive  for  refusing  to  dance.  Then  I 
prayed  to  God  saying,  “God  if  this  is  the 
punishment  with  which  you  are  going  to 
punish  me  for  refusing  to  dance,  take  it 
away  and  the  very  next  time  you  ask  me 
to  dance,  at  it  I  go.”  The  night  follow¬ 
ing,  a  little  girl  got  into  a  trance,  and 
danced  over  to  where  I  was  sitting,  took 
hold  of  my  hand  and  said  to  me,  “Dance! 
Dance!”  There  was  no  getting  out  of  it. 
I  just  had  to  try  it.  So  I  closed  my  eyes 
and  hopped  with  one  foot.  The  other 
foot  seemed  to  hop  by  itself.  After  a  few 
hops,  I  got  up  against  a  post.  I  took 
hold  of  it  and  stopped  myself.  I  opened 
my  eyes  and  took  my  seat.  I  felt  ashamed 
of  myself.  I  knew  by  this  time  that  I 
was  not  humble  enough  to  “praise  the 
name  of  the  Lord  in  the  dance.”  Psa. 
149:3. 

During  this  revival,  while  in .  secret 


prayer,  I  had  an  experience  that  was 
sublime.  My  income  had  been  small,  be¬ 
cause  of  the  fact  that  the  mines  were  not 
working.  I  had  received  no  more  than 
$15.00  a  week  in  any  revival  I  had  held 
during  the  summer,  and  in  one  revival 
my  salary  was  as  low  as  $5.00  per  week. 
I  was  running  behind  in  living  expenses. 
So  I  said  to  myself,  “I  believe  that  I  can 
get  a  prayer  through  to  God  for  money, 
as  well  as  for  anything  else.”  So  I  com¬ 
menced  to  pray  for  money.  When  I  had 
continued  my  prayer  for  three  hours,  God 
said  to  me,  “Which  would  you  sooner 
have,  plenty  of  money  or  my  power?”  I 
at  once  realized  the  importance  of  the 
decision  I  was  about  to  make,  so  I  made 
my  decision  quickly,  and  said  to  God,  “Oh 
God,  give  me  your  power!” 

Captain  Combs  of  the  Salvation  Army, 
who  received  his  baptism  in  the  first  re¬ 
vival  at  Coulterville,  is  now  in  charge  of 
the  church  in  that  town.  He  continued 
the  revival  for  one  week  after  I  left  and 
souls  continued  to  come  to  the  Lord.  The 
revival  power  is  still  falling  in  Coulter- 
ville.  Souls  are  being  saved  in  nearly 
every  service. 


THE  REVIVAL  AT  EDEN 


About  the  same  time  that  I  started  the 
second  revival  at  Coulterville  Brothers 
Lirely  and  Thomas  started  a  tent  meet¬ 
ing  at  Eden,  a  suburb  of  Sparta.  They 
continued  this  meeting  for  three  weeks, 
during  which  time  twenty  persons  were 
saved  and  received  the  baptism  of  the 
Holy  Ghost. 

The  brethren  suffered  great  persecution 
at  this  place.  A  man  who  lived  across 
the  street  from  the  tent  thought  that  he 
could  use  the  law  to  make  the  brethren 
pull  down  their  tent  and  leave  the  town, 


so  he  had  them  arrested  under  the  charge 
of  disturbing  the  peace.  They  were 
placed  under  bonds,  and  a  day  was  set 
for  their  hearing.  When  the  day  arrived 
the  hearing  was  put  off  until  a  later  date. 
We  sent  a  fifty-two  word  night  letter  to 
Governor  Small,  asking  him  to  adjust  this 
matter  for  us.  On  the  arrival  of  the  next 
hour  set  for  the  trial,  the  case  wras  thrown 
out  cf  court. 

About  sixty  days  after  this  the  man 
who  had  Brothers  Lirely  and  Thomas  ar¬ 
rested  took  sick  suddenly  and  died  about 
three  days  after  he  took  sick. 


THE  TENT  MEETINGS  AT  STEELVILLE  AND  CAMPBELL  HILL 


From  Coulterville  I  went  to  Steelville, 
where  I  pitched  a  tent  and  began  to 
preach  Pentecost  to  the  people  of  that 
town.  At  the  same  time  Brothers  Fer¬ 
guson  and  Thomas  started  a  tent  meeting 
at  Campbell  Hill. 

I  continued  the  meeting  at  Steelville 
for  three  weeks.  A  few  received  healing 
and  five  persons  were  filled  with  the  Holy 
Ghost.  None  of  those  who  received  sal¬ 
vation  lived  in  Steelville.  At  the  close  of 
the  last  service  some  of  the  people 


gathered  around  me  and  urged  me  to  stay 
longer,  but  I  felt  that  I  had  to  go  for  the 
time. 

About  the  time  that  I  left  Steelville, 
Bro.  and  Sister  Lirely  came  to  Campbell 
Hill  and  relieved  Bro.  Ferguson  who  re¬ 
turned  to  Percy  to  attend  to  his  pastoral 
work,  and  Bro.  Lirely  continued  the 
meeting  at  Campbell  Hill  a  few  weeks 
longer.  Fifteen  persons  received  the 
Holy  Ghost  during  this  meeting,  and  a 
sister  who  had  been  deaf  in  one  ear  for 
35  years,  received  healing. 


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THE  SECOND  REVIVAL  AT  MARISSA 


While  the  writer  was  at  Steelville  Bro. 
Gililand  came  to  Marissa  and  held  meet¬ 
ings  for  two  weeks.  But  there  was  a 
dangerous  schism  in  the  church  at 

Marissa,  and  because  of  th:'s  Bro.  Gili¬ 
land  departed.  Nevertheless  a  few  souls 
were  saved  in  his  meetings. 

After  one  of  the  night  services,  held  by 
Bro.  Gilliland,  had  been  dismissed,  some 
of  the  saints  got  into  trances  on  their  way 
home.  They  began  to  shout  and  dance 


in  the  streets.  A  crowd  of  saints  and 
sinners  gathered  around  them.  Followed 
by  a  large  crowd,  those  who  were  under 
the  power  marched  up  and  down  the 
streets  dancing  and  shouting  the  praises 
of  God.  Some  of  the  sinners  arose  from 
their  beds  and  followed  the  crowd.  The 
dancers,  being  led  by  the  Holy  Ghost, 
returned  to  the  brush  arbor  in  which  the 
services  were  held,  where  an  altar  call 
was  given  and  five  seekers  came  to  the 
altar. 


THE  THIRD  REVIVAL  AT  MARISSA 


At  the  close  of  the  meeting  at  Steelville, 
the  writer  went  to  Marissa  to  hold  revival 
services,  and  continued  the  services  there 
for  mere  than  seven  weeks.  Near  the 
bginning  of  the  services  souls  began  to 
come  to  the  altar,  but  later  the  soul¬ 
saving  work  almost  ceased,  so  that  there 
was  only  an  occasional  seeker  at  the  altar. 

I  am  not  certain  that  I  understand 
fully  the  schism  at  Marissa.  Some  did 
not  receive  fully  Bro.  Lloyd,  who  had 
acted  as  pastor  since  the  first  revival. 
There  was  also  a  dissension  about  mani¬ 
festations  brought  in  among  them  by  cer¬ 
tain  persons  who  taught  them  that  they 
should  bring  the  Spirit  under  control.  A 
strange  doctrine  truly  that  man  should 
control  the  Holy  Ghost.  Such  a  doc¬ 
trine  might  do  for  a  heathen,  who  has  a 
little  god  that  he  can  carry  in  his  pocket, 
but  it  will  never  do  for  the  worshipers  of 
the  living  God. 

The  manifestations  of  God’s  power 
were  wonderful  during  this  meeting.  The 
dancing  in  the  Spirit  was  wonderful 
throughout  the  meeting.  Some  wonder¬ 
ful  visions  were  given.  One  sister  was 
caught  up  into  heaven  and  saw  God  sit¬ 
ting  upon  His  throne  and  Jesus  standing 
beside  the  throne  of  God.  Another  sister 
was  caught  up  into  heaven,  in  the  midst 
of  a  great  throng  of  angels.  Some  of  the 
angels  were  playing  beautiful  music  on 
harps  and  the  rest  were  dancing  to  the 
music. 

Healing  power  was  also  present.  Four 
were  healed  of  partial  deafness.  A 
tongue-tied  baby  was  also  healed,  and 
some  of  other  afflictions.  The  writer  was 
called  to  Coulterville  to  pray  for  a  boy, 
about  twelve  years  old,  who  was  suffer¬ 
ing  with  appendicitis.  He  was  in  the 
doctor’s  care,  and  was  in  great  suffering. 
I  put  my  hands  upon  his  head  and  prayed 
fer  his  healing.  But  the  Lord  would  not 
heal  him.  Then  I  asked  all  the  folks  to 
leave  the  room  and  leave  me  alone  with 
the  s:ck  boy.  They  left  the  room  and  I 


closed  the  door  behind  them.  I  put  my 
hands  again  upon  the  boy  and  asked  God 
to  heal  him.  But  still  the  Lord  would  not 
heal  him.  Then  I  asked  the  boy  if  he 
was  saved.  He  said,  “No.”  I  asked  him 
if  he  would  get  saved  if  the  Lord  healed 
him.  He  said,  “Yes.”  Then  I  put  my 
hands  again  upon  him  and  asked  God  to 
heal  him,  and  the  power  of  God  fell  upon 
h’m  and  healed  him  instantly.  The  boy 
arose  and  ate  a  large  dinner.  That  night 
he  went  to  the  service  in  Coulterville  and 
got  saved. 

The  Spirit  continued  to  tell  me  to 
dance  during  this  meeting.  Persons  who 
were  so  comp’etely  under  the  power  of 
the  Holy.  Ghost  that  they  knew  nothing 
about  what  they  were  doing,  kept  com¬ 
ing  to  me  and  telling  me  to  dance.  The 
first  time  I  disobeyed  but  I  feared  pun¬ 
ishment  from  God. 

At  another  time  a  sister  in  a  trance, 
placed  all  the  saints  in  a  circle  and  com¬ 
manded  us  to  march  around  the  circle  a 
few  times.  Then  we  were  commanded  to 
come  towards  the  center  of  the  circle 
Then  the  command  came  for  us  all  to 
dance.  Instantly  the  power  of  God  fed 
upon  many  who  began  to  dance  in  the 
Spirit.  But  there  was  no  power  upon  me, 
yet  I  feared  to  disobey  the  Holy  Ghost, 
so  I  shut  my  eyes  and  tried  to  dance. 
I  began  to  hop.  Some  say  that  I  began 
to  spin,  but  I  do  not  know  in  myself  that 
I  did.  Soon  I  was  lying  on  the  floor 
trying  to  sober  up.  I  felt  ashamed  of 
this  attempt  to  dance.  I  never  knew  that 
I  was  so  proud  before  I  made  these  at¬ 
tempts  to  dance. 

After  this  the  Spirit  again  commanded 
me  to  dance,  in  the  way  previously  de¬ 
scribed.  I  shut  my  eyes  and  began  to 
hop  again.  After  a  few  hops  my  feet 
suddenly  shifted  into  a  step  like  an  auto¬ 
mobile  shifting  into  gear.  It  was  easy 
now.  My  feet  just  wanted  to  dance.  I 
was  not  unconscious  but  I  saw  nothing 
and  did  not  know  what  part  of  the  hall 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


I  was  in.  The  dancing  power  has  come 
into  my  feet  several  times  since  that  ex¬ 
perience  but  I  do  not  feel  as  much  shame 
afterwards  as  I  did  at  first.  I  do  npt 
know  what  others  may  think  of  my  ex¬ 
perience  at  dancing  but  it  is  entire’y  satis¬ 
factory  unto  me.  I  had  been  praying  for 
months  for  God  to  make  me  dance  but  I 
did  not  think  He  would  make  me  dance 
in  the  way  He  did. 

The  walking  trances,  as  I  call  them, 
were  common  during  this  meeting.  While 
in  this  state  the  saints  are  entirely  un¬ 
conscious.  They  walk,  talk,  sing,  dance, 
write  and  do  many  wonderful  things. 
Through  persons  in  this  state  the  Holy 
Ghost  showed  us  many  object  lessons. 
The  Crucifixion  scene;  God  sitting  upon 
His  throne  and  Jesus  standing  by  God’s 
throne,  and  the  angels  worshiping  God 
and  dancing  before  His  throne;  The  Rock 
of  Ages;  The  Gate  of  Heaven;  Exchang¬ 
ing  the  cross  for  the  crown;  lifting  a 
fallen  brother;  and  supporting  the  weak 
were  all  acted  out  before  our  eyes. 

The  rock  of  ages  wTas  a  most  impres¬ 
sive  scene.  -A  sister  under  the  power  led 
another  sister  out  on  the  floor  and  made 
her  kneel.  Then  she  lifted  her  arms  to  a 
horizontal  position  so  as  to  form  the 
cross.  Then  she  placed  about  fifteen 
saints  in  a  circle  around  her,  made  them 
join  hands  and  march  around  her  a  few 
times.  Then  she  made  them  all  kneel 
and  place  their  hands  in  a  supplient  posi¬ 
tion  for  a  time  Then  the  leader  still  in 
a  trance  began  to  sing  Rock  of  Ages. 
We  ail  joined  her  in  the  singing  of  this 
hymn. 

In  one  of  the  night  services  two  sisters 
under  the  power  locked  arms  and  walked 
across  the  floor  to  the  altar  conversing 
in  tongues  as  if  they  were  about  to  do 
something  mutually  understood  between 
them.  The  one  helped  the  other  up  on 
the  altar,  which  stood  against  the  stage, 
made  her  turn  around  and  sit  down  on 
the  edge  of  the  stage,  with  her  feet  upon 
the  altar.  Then  the  sister  on  the  floor 
lifted  the  arms  of  the  sister  sitting  on  the 
stage  to  a  horizontal  position  to  form  the 
sign  of  the  cross.  Then  the  sister  on 
the  floor  led  the  writer  before  the  one 
sitting  on  the  stage  and  said  to  him,  “Bow 
at  the  feet  of  my  lamb  and  ask  whatso¬ 
ever  thou  wilt  and  it  shall  be  revealed 
unto  thee.”  Others  were  led  forth  and 
told  the  same  thing.  We  all  knelt  but 
none  of  us  caught  the  inspiration  of  the 
hour.  Evidently  the  Holy  Ghost  had  in¬ 
tended  to  answer  questions  for  us  by  the 
lips  of  the  sister  sitting  before  us.  From 
this  time  I  began  to  understand  that  the 
Holy  Ghost  would  answer  questions  for 
us. 

The  writing  of  letters  in  the  Spirit  be¬ 


came  a  prominent  factor  in  this  meeting. 
One  service  was  largely  given  to  it. 
Many  doubted  this.  I  also  doubted. 
Those  under  the  power  began  first  to 
write  in  the  air.  A  pencil  and  writing 
tablet  were  placed  in  their  hands,  and 
they  began  to  write  letters.  Some  of 
these  bore  the  signature  of  Jesus  and 
some  the  signature  of  The  Father.  Some 
were  addressed  to  the  saints,  some  to 
the  sinners  and  some  to  individuals.  The 
doubts  were  largely  removed  when  the 
Lord  Jesus  appeared  in  our  hall  one 
night,  just  over  two  little  girls  who  were 
lying  on  the  floor,  on  their  backs,  writing 
in  the  Spirit.  He  was  dressed  in  a  white 
robe  and  was  looking  down  upon  the 
writers.  Two  sisters  saw  Him.  But  why 
should  not  we  receive  letters  from  Jesus 
as  well  as  the  seven  angels  of  the  seven 
churches  of  Asia.  If  Jesus  wrote  seven 
letters  to  those  seven  preachers  by  the 
hand  of  John,  sixty  years  after  His  as¬ 
cension,  He  can  write  letters  to  us  1900 
years  after  His  ascension.  The  following 
are  specimens  of  the  messages  given  in 
writing. 

“My  lambs,  keep  saved,  pray  more.” 

“He  gave  His  only  Son  for  you,  sin¬ 
ners,  so  some.” 

“Come  and  be  with  my  lambs.” 

“When  I  come  I  am  going  to  take  you 
home,  my  lambs,  and  give  you  all  a 
crown.” 

“Jesus  loves  you,  come  and  be  saved.” 

“Come  sinners,  come  and  be  saved.” 

“Jesus  is  coming  soon,  be  ready.” 

“Pray  for  sinners,  tell  them  that  I  am 
coming  sooner  than  they  think.” 

“One  accord,  one  mind.” 

“This  message  is  to  be  read  to  sinners: 
Come  and  be  saved  for  I  am  coming  back 
to  earth  once  more.  For  saints:  Get  ready 
saints  for  I  am  coming  soon.  Some  say 
they  are  saved,  but  they  are  not.  I  know 
you  dear  ones.” 

“Pray  for  power  and  you  will  get  it.” 

“Trust  and  obey  if  you  want  victory.” 

“Pray  for  more  power.” 

“All  saints  pull  one  way  and  hold  on.” 

“Be  faithful:  do  not  do  what  you  would 
not  want  me  to  see,  or  hear.” 

“My  lambs  are  going  with  me  when  I 
call.” 

1  he  following  are  personal  letters  re¬ 
ceived  by  the  writer: 

“My  son,  there  is  victory  ahead  for 
you;  don’t  doubt  my  work. 

Your  Saviour.” 

“My  son,  after  you  leave  this  town 
you  are  going  to  win  victory.” 

“Let  my  power  work  my  lamb. 

Your  Father  above.” 

“My  Dear  Son,  I  am  talking  to  you. 
You  are  my  faithful  child.  You  must 


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cbey  and  do  my  will  and  soon  souls  will 
come  in  to  be  saved.” 

“He  gave  His  only  begotten  son,  that 
whosoever  believeth  in  Him  should  not 
perish  but  have  everlasting  life.  My  son, 
read  this  at  altar  call.” 

There  was  an  extraordinary  manifesta¬ 
tion  of  God's  power  in  one  of  the  night 
services,  near  the  beginning  of  this  re¬ 
vival.  We  had  given  the  altar  call  but  no 
one  had  come  to  the  altar.  A  little  girl 
about  twelve  years  old  was  under  the 
power,  so  according  to  my  rule  I  could 
not  close,  for  out  of  reverence  to  the  Holy 
Ghost  I  never  close  a  service  while  the 
power  is  on  any  one.  So  I  asked  the 
congregation  to  be  seated  until  we  should 
see  what  the  Spirit  was  going  to  do.  The 
child  arose,  took  another  girl  about  her 
size  hy  the  hand,  and  led  her  out  upon  the 
sidewalk.  We  could  hear  her  shouting  as 
she  went  dancing  along  the  sidewalk.  A 
few  minutes  later  she  returned  to  the 
pavilion  leading  a  little  girl  by  the  hand 
who  was  a  backslider.  She  brought  her 
to  the  altar.  The  little  backslider  was  re¬ 
claimed.  The  child  who  led  her  to  the 
altar  had  no  recollection  of  anything  she 
had  done  when  she  came  out  from  under 
the  power. 

The  manifestations  of  God’s  power 
have  been  becoming  greater  and  more 
wonderful  in  every  revival  since  the  re¬ 
vival  at  Percy.  The  walking  trances  ap¬ 
peared  first  at  Percy  and  have  been  be¬ 
coming  more  numerous  and  more  power¬ 
ful  until  it  has  developed  into  what  is 
evidently  the  apostolic  gift  of  prophecy. 
A  few  prophecies  were  put  forth  by  per¬ 
sons  in  this  state  at  Percy,  which  have 
been  meeting  their  fulfillment  ever  since. 

At  one  of  the  night  services  at  Marissa, 
several  of  the  girls  fell  into  the  walking 
trances.  Through  one  of  them  a  pro¬ 
phecy  was  put  forth  to  a  young  brother 
in  the  audience  that  God  was  going  to 
give  him  healing  power.  They  led  him 
to  a  crippled  child  sitting  on  her  mother’s 
lap,  placed  his  hands  on  her  and  told  him 
to  pray  for  her.  The  crippled  child  was 
Dorothy  Combs,  a  two-year-old  daughter 
of  Captain  Combs. 

After  the  prayer  these  girls  took  the 
child  out  of  her  mother’s  arms,  prayed 
over  her,  wept  over  her,  rubbed  her 
joints  and  tried  to  make  her  walk  on  the 
floor.  These  things  continued  for  fully  a 
half  hour.  The  child  was  not  healed  but 
we  all  took  this  for  a  sign  that  God  was 
going  to  heal  her.  When  the  mother  had 
again  taken  the  child,  one  of  the  young 
sisters  who  is  a  prophet  came  to  me  with 
the  following  message  from  the  Lord 
which  she  delivered  verbally: 

“My  Dear  Son:  You  are  my  faithful 
child.  I  will  give  you  a  crown  of  glory 


in  heaven.  I  have  a  crown  of  righteous¬ 
ness  laid  up  for  you  You  have  faith  in 
me;  pray  for  this  child,  that  it  may  be 
healed.” 

The  next  night,  by  the  hand  of  a 
prophet,  the  Lord  sent  me  the  following 
letter: 

“My  Dear  Sen:  Obey  my  command,  I 
will  answer  your  prayer.  Thou  shouldst 
preach  from  the  2nd  chapter  of  Acts. 

From  Jesus.” 

I  had  preached  from  this  chapter  twice 
before  during  this  revival,  nevertheless, 
I  obeyed  the  command  and  preached 
from  it  with  the  greatest  power  that  was 
given  me  during  this  revival.  I  thought 
the  command  referred  to  in  this  letter 
was  the  one  contained  in  the  message 
given  the  night  before  to  pray  for  the 
healing  of  Dorothy  Combs.  So  I  went 
to  her  home,  took  her  into  a  room  by 
myself  and  prayed  fervently  for  her  heal¬ 
ing;  but  the  Lord  did  not  heal  her. 

On  the  last  night  of  the  revival  the 
Holy  Ghost  again  took  up  the  subject  of 
Dorothy  Combs’  healing.  A  young  sister 
fell  upon  the  floor  in  a  trance  and  began 
to  pray  and  weep  before  the  Lord  in  the 
Spirit  for  her  healing.  Then  the  Spirit 
sent  us  the  following  letter: 

“If  we  all  have  faith  He  will  heal  when 
we  do;  but  if  not,  God  said  he  could  not 
heal.  No  faith!” 

Then  two  of  the  brethren  laid  their 
hands  on  Dorothy  and  prayed  for  her 
healing.  She  was  not  healed.  Then  the 
Holy  Ghost  wrote  the  following  letter  to 
Captain  Combs. 

“Jesus  has  already  come  half  way  to 
heal  and  He  went  back  because  just  as 
He  was  ready  to  heal,  someone  doubted.” 

Then  Jesus  sent  me  the  following 
letter: 

“Dear  Son:  This  is  not  to  be  read 
among  my  saints,  but  there  are  two  peo¬ 
ple  who  are  doubting.  I  will  revea  to 
you  later.  Pray  for  them  and  obey  my 
command.  Pray  my  faithful  child. 

Jesus.” 

Then  the  following  letters  were  re¬ 
ceived  by  certain  parties  present  by  the 
hand  of  the  prophetess: 

“You  pray,  my  Dear  Lamb,  and  tell 
other  lambs  to  pray  for  it  takes  prayer 
for  me  to  heal.  I  can  heal  instantly,  but 
I  want  you  all  to  pray. 

From  Saviour.” 

“But  He  is  going  to  heal.  Do  not  get 
discouraged  but  pray  more  and  have  faith 
in  me  always.  Do  you  trust  me  or  not? 
I  know  you  will.” 

When  the  prophetess  came  out  from 
under  the  power,  I  asked  her  if  she  had 
seen  a  vision.  She  said,  “Yes,  I  saw 
Jesus  coming  down  from  heaven,  accom¬ 
panied  by  a  company  of  very  large  angels, 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


to  heal  Dorothy  Combs.  He  came  part 
of  the  way  and  then  stopped  and  said, 
‘There!  somebody  doubted!  But  I  will 
come  again.’  Then  He  turned  and  went 
back  to  heaven.”  She  knew  nothing 
about  the  things  that  had  taken  place  in 
our  meeting. 

In  one  of  the  Sunday  afternoon  serv¬ 
ices,  two  gir’s,  the  one  a  young  woman, 
the  other  a  child  about  twelve  years  old, 
wrought  a  marvelous  work  in  the  Spirit. 
They  worked  together  as  if  by  mutual 
understanding,  yet  both  were  in  a  state 
of  perfect  unconsciousness  and  knew 
nothing  about  the  things  they  were  doing. 
They  lined  all  the  saints  up  in  a  straight 
line  across  the  hall,  and  then  came  along 
and  removed  from  the  person  of  every 
one  all  jewelry,  such  as  necklaces,  beads, 
finger  rings,  tie-pins,  etc.  I  was  wearing 
an  ornamental  tie-pin.  Th;s  was  removed 
and  handed  to  me  to  put  in  my  pocket. 
I  broke  the  ornamental  part  off  and  put 
the  plain  pin  back  into  my  tie.  The  Spirit 
has  not  objected  to  this  pin  since. 

While  the  inspection  continued,  the 
Holy  Ghost  said  by  the  mouth  of  the 
child,  ‘‘You  must  put  away  all  extra  ap¬ 
pearances.” 

The  child  herself  wore  a  golden  neck¬ 
lace.  She  took  hold  of  it,  broke  it  and 
threw  it  awray.  She  would  never  have 


known  what  had  become  of  it  had  not 
others  told  her  wrhat  she  had  done. 

Some  in  the  line,  when  they  saw  what 
was  coming,  tried  to  hide  their  jewelry, 
but  the  Spirit  found  all  of  it. 

When  the  inspection  was  ended,  the 
Lord  said  by  the  mouth  of  the  child, 
‘‘Now  you  can  worship  me  better  since 
you  have  laid  aside  your  jewels.” 

In  another  service  a  sister  in  a  trance 
went  about  wiping  the  powder  off  the 
faces  of  the  sisters.  One  sister  denied 
saying,  ‘‘I  did  not  put  powder  on  my 
face  tonight.”  ‘‘Did  I  not  see  you?”  said 
the  Spirit  by  the  mouth  of  the  prophet¬ 
ess.”  “Oh,  yes!”  said  the  other,  “I  for¬ 
got.  I  did  put  powder  on  my  face  before 
I  started  to  church.”  Then  the  Spirit 
wrote  by  the  hand  of  a  prophetess, 
“Powder  is  not  for  the  saints.” 

One  of  those  who  received  the  baptism 
of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  this  revival  was 
Almira  Hutson,  a  Salvation  Army  girl. 
She  is  called  into  the  ministry  and  feels 
that  her  place  is  in  the  Pentecostal  work. 
The  Holy  Ghost  told  her  that  she  should 
not  go  back  to  St.  Louis,  the  divisional 
headquarters.  But  she  heeded  the  super¬ 
ior  officers  and  went  to  headquarters. 
Letters  from  her  to  saints  in  Marissa 
showed  that  she  was  dissatisfied  and  felt 
that  her  place  was  in  the  Pentecostal 
work. 


THE  SECOND  REVIVAL  AT  TILDEN 


About  the  time  that  I  started  my  re¬ 
vival  at  Marissa  Sister  West  started  a 
revival  at  Tilden.  For  several  weeks  the 
meeting  went  on  with  apparently  little 
success.  In  the  meantime  strange  mani¬ 
festations  were  developing  in  their  midst. 
Some  of  the  saints  would  get  into  trances 
and  begin  to  do  strange  things  sometimes 
when  the  minister  was  just  ready  to  be¬ 
gin  his  sermon,  so  some  of  them  were  set 
down. 

One  of  the  sisters  who  had  those 
strange  manifestations  and  who  because 
of  her  strange  manifestations  was  a  sub¬ 
ject  of  ridicule  in  the  mouths  of  the 
saints  at  Tilden,  came  to  Marissa  and 
helped  us  in  cur  services.  She  went  to 
the  Tilden  meeting  at  a  time  when  Sister 
West  was  becoming  discouraged.  There 
she  went  into  a  trance  and  wrought 
wonderful  works  through  the  power  of 


the  Hoy  Ghost.  The  altar  was  filled 
with  seekers,  and  Sister  West  decided  to 
continue  the  revival. 

The  Ploly  Ghost  has  now  full  liberty  at 
Tilden  and  marvelous  gifts  are  develop¬ 
ing  in  their  midst. 

In  one  cf  the  services  in  Tilden  the 
Holy  Ghost  through  the  prophets  lined 
up  all  the  brethren  and  took  all  the  to¬ 
bacco,  pipes,  cigarettes,  cigarette  papers 
and  matches  out  of  their  pockets.  The 
pipes  were  thrown  into  the  stove,  and 
the  rest  of  these  things  were  taken  outside 
and  scattered  to  the  winds.  One  sister 
put  a  piece  of  tobacco  in  her  pocket  and 
went  to  church  to  see  if  the  Holy  Ghost 
would  find  it.  The  Holy  Ghost  through 
a  prophet  told  her  about  the  scheme  she 
had  concocted. 

Preachers  are  being  sent  out  from  Til¬ 
den  and  Marissa  according  to  Acts  13:1-3. 


A  VISIT  TO  TILDEN 


I  had  heard  that  there  were  prophets 
in  the  church  at  Tilden,  so  I  visited  that 
place.  The  saints  came  together  quietly. 
Each  found  a  seat  and  kept  his  place  to 
the  end  of  the  service.  We  tasted  first  of 


prayer.  Then  we  sang  a  hymn.  During 
the  singing  the  power  of  the  spirit  fell 
upon  three  of  the  sisters.  Two  soon 
came  out  from  under  the  power  and  took 
their  seats.  The  other  began  to  teach  us 


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21 


deep  lessons.  Her  eyes  were  closed.  She 
walked  into  a  bed-room  (for  we  were  in 
a  cottage  meeting,)  picked  up  a  baby 
that  lay  upon  the  bed,  brought  it  before 
us  and  said,  “When  all  the  saints  become 
as  this  child  Sister  Franklin  will  be 
healed.”  (Sister  Franklin  is  a  lame  sis¬ 
ter  who  is  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghost.) 
The  prophetess  exhorted  us  for  a  time 
and  then  took  her  seat.  Just  as  she  was 
in  the  act  of  sitting  down  she  came  out 
from  under  the  power. 

At  the  same  instant  the  power  fell  up¬ 
on  another  sister  who  at  once  arose,  with 
eyes  closed,  and  began  to  prophecy.  She 
continued  her  prophecies  for  about  two 
hours.  The  prophecies  were  great  and 
the  sayings  deep  and  wonderful.  The 
secrets  of  many  hearts  were  revealed. 
Many  of  the  saints  were  led  before  me 
one  at  a  time.  While  the  prop'hetess  held 
each  by  the  hand,  the  Holy  Ghost  by  her 
lips  gave  me  accounts  of  the  difficulties 
He  had  encountered  in  making  believers 
cut  of  them.  Each  stood  smiling  and 
nodding  assent  to  the  things  the  Holy 
Ghost  was  telling  me  about  him. 

The  Holy  Ghost  by  the  lips  of  this 
sister  told  us  that  there  were  five  of  the 
saints  who  hindered  Sister  Franklin’s 
healing,  three  women  and  two  men. 
These  the  Holy  Ghost  told  us  were  not 
true.  He  repeated  to  us  many  of  the 
sayings  of  these  prsons  when  not  in  the 
presence  of  the  saints. 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  referred  to  one 
of  the  persecutors  of  the  saints  and  told 
us  that  one  of  the  two  unfaithful  men 
was  hindering  him  from  becoming  a  be¬ 
liever. 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  pointed  out  to 
me  the  wife  of  an  aged  blind  man,  for 
whose  healing  I  had  prayed  twice,  with¬ 
out  results.  The  Holy  Ghost  said,  “She 
is  a  faithful  wife  and  mother,  but  her 
daughter  is  wicked.  Her  husband  also  is 
wicked.  He  says,  ‘Praise  the  Lord! 
Praise  the  Lord!’  in  the  presence  of  the 
saints,  but  behind  their  backs  he  cusses 
them.”  Then  the  Holy  Ghost  said  unto 
me,  “You  prayed  for  that  man  twice,  but 
he  had  no  faith  in  your  prayers,  and  be¬ 
hind  your  back  he  cusses  you.”  The  wife 
nodded  assent  to  all  the  things  that  the 
Floly  Ghost  said  about  her  husband. 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  said  unto  me. 
“My  Son:  Ycu  have  been  very  patient  in 
Marissa.  You  have  been  both  faithful 
and  patient,  but  they  will  not  hear  you. 
They  sit  back  and  make  fun  of  you  while 
you  are  preaching.  They  have  stolen 
yrour  lights,  broken  up  your  organ  and 
acted  dirty  in  the  hall  when  you  were 
not  present.” 

“Yes,  Lord,”  said  I,  “too  dirty  to  talk 
about.” 


And  the  Holy  Ghost  answered,  “Yes, 
but  go  back  to  Marissa  and  stay  until  the 
last  of  the  week,  and  then  go  to  New 
Athens.  Souls  are  going  to  destruction 
in  that  town  every  day.  There  are  men 
in  that  town  who  do  not  believe  in  heaven 
or  hell.  The  young  girls  in  that  town, 
and  the  young  boys  are  going  to  destruc¬ 
tion.  Go  quickly  to  that  town.” 

Then  I  exclaimed  in  the  earnestness  of 
my  soul,  “Lord  may  I  not  go  home?” 
(I  had  not  been  home  for  six  months  and 
had  planned  a  visit  with  the  loved  ones 
at  home.  It  seemed  to  me  at  this  mo¬ 
ment  that  the  Lord  was  going  to  require 
me  to  defer  my  trip  home.  It  seemed 
hard,  but  I  quickly  decided  that  I  would 
obey  God’s  command.) 

The  Holy  Ghost  deferred  His  answer 
until  I  had  decided  in  my  heart  to  defer 
my  visit  if  God  told  me  to,  then  He  said, 
“You  may  go  home,  but  don’t  visit  long. 
Lose  no  time  in  getting  to  New  Athens.” 

Then  I  said  to  the  Holy  Ghost,  “May 
I  take  some  one  along  with  me  to  New 
Athens?” 

“Don’t  take  your  companion,”  said  He, 
“she  might  get  hurt.  Go  by  yourself, 
and  pray  much  that  you  do  not  get  hurt, 
but  I  will  be  with  you  and  see  you 
through.  You  will  have  a  hard  time  get¬ 
ting  anything  started  there,  but  you  will 
win  the  victory.” 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  told  the  saints  at 
Tilden  that  when  I  got  my  meeting  start¬ 
ed  in  New  Athens  they  should  go  up  and 
help  me  out. 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  told  me  to  tell 
the  saints  at  Marissa  to  go  up  to  New 
Athens  also  and  help  me  out. 

The  Holy  Ghost  said  also  to  me,  “Go 
back  to  Marissa  and  warn  the  saints  that 
the  wolves  are  coming.”  He  said  also, 
“Tell  the  saints  at  Marissa  that  there 
are  wolves  among  them.” 

Then  I  said  to  the  Holy  Ghost,  “Why 
is  it  that  I  cannot  receive  a  full  endue- 
ment  with  power  from  on  high?” 

He  said  to  me,  “Go  into  your  upper 
room  with  me  alone  and  read  the  Bible 
and  ask  me,  and  I  will  reveal  unto  you 
things  that  I  do  not  want  the  saints  to 
hear.” 

He  said  also  to  me,  “You  pray  much, 
but  pray  more.  Give  me  all  the  time  that 
you  can  spare.” 

“The  Floly  Ghost  also  gave  me  the  fol¬ 
lowing  instructions:  “You  are  too  harsh 
with  the  sinners  who  do  not  obey  you. 
Use  more  kindness.  Kindness  will  win 
them.  The  saints  take  too  much  liberty. 
They  laugh  and  talk  and  whisper  to  one 
another  and  move  about  when  you  are 
preaching.  This  hinders  me  from  work¬ 
ing.  The  sinners  talk  about  the  way  the 
saints  are  doing.  Put  the  saints  where 


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they  belong  and  make  them  stay  there 
and  keep  quiet  until  the  service  closes. 
And  when  the  power  falls  on  some  one 
while  you  are  preaching,  stop  and  let  the 
Holy  Ghost  preach,  and  believe  in  mani¬ 
festations,  and  if  anyone  gets  up  who  is 
not  of  me  I  have  power  to  set  him  down.” 

"Shall  I  believe  in  every  manifesta¬ 
tion?”  inquired  I. 

"Yes,”  said  the  Spirit,  "and  if  any  one 
gets  up  who  is  not  of  me,  I  will  set  him 

BACK  AT 

The  four  nights  at  Marissa  were  great¬ 
ly  blessed  of  God.  The  Holy  Ghost  was 
in  charge.  I  faithfully  warned  the  saints 
that  the  wolves  were  coming  to  that 
place  as  the  Holy  Ghost  had  commanded 
me. 

In  one  of  these  services  a  sister  was 
lying  on  the  floor  in  a  trance.  Suddenly 
a  voice  from  her  lips  said,  "If  you  will 
all  pray  I  will  bring  Almira  back.  Pray! 
Pray!” 

We  all  prayed.  Then  the  voice  said, 
"Almira  is  coming  back.  Jesus  will  bring 
her  back.  Shout!  Shout!” 

Some  praised  the  Lord  but  not  very 
loud. 

The  voice  said  again,  "Shout!  Shout 
aloud!  Are  you  not  happy?” 

Then  we  all  shouted  praises  to  God 
aloud. 

Then  the  voice  from  the  prophetess’ 
lips  said,  "I  will  write  her  a  letter  and 
that  will  bring  her.” 

Then  the  finger  of  the  prophetess 
pointed  towards  Almira’s  mother  and  her 
face  turned  towards  her  as  if  she  were 
looking  at  her  (but  her  eyes  were  shut 
tight)  at  the  same  time  the  voice  from 
her  lips  said,  "If  I  write  a  letter  will  you 
send  it  to  her?”  With  a  nod  the  mother 
answered,  "Yes.” 

Then  by  the  hand  of  the  prophetess, 
as  she  lay  upon  the  floor,  the  following 
letter  was  written: 

"My  dear  Lamb:  I  am  Jesus.  I  am 
sending  you  this  letter.  I  am  wanting 
you  back  to  your  home  town.  I  am  tell¬ 
ing  you  that  you  must  obey  me  and  not 
man.  Do  you  still  love  your  Saviour? 
I  want  to  always  be  in  your  heart.  I  will 
go  with  you  everywhere  if  you  will  let  me 
lead  you;  but  I  am  your  leader,  your  Sav¬ 
iour  and  guide.  I  do  not  want  you  there, 
it  is  against  my  will.  Your  dear  friends 
and  dear  saints  love  you  and  always  will. 
I  am  asking  you  to  come  back  where  you 
belong.  Oh,  how  I  love  you!  You  have 
been  a  means  of  souls,  I  through  you. 
Be  faithful  my  lamb.  I  love  you  still. 
Obey  my  call. 

Jesus.” 


down.” 

I  testify  to  every  one  who  reads  this 
book  that  every  word  spoken  to  me 
through  the  prophetess  that  pertains  to 
the  past  and  present,  is  true. 

This  meeting  in  Tilden  was  held  on 
Wednesday  evening.  I  had  closed  my 
meeting  at  Marissa  the  night  before.  In 
obedience  to  the  command  of  God  I  re¬ 
turned  to  Marissa  and  held  services  again 
from  Thursday  night  until  Sunday  night. 

MARISSA 

The  letter  was  folded  and  on  the  out¬ 
side  was  written, 

"Almira  Hutson 
from  Jesus.” 

In  another  night  service  a  young 
woman  was  lying  on  the  floor  under  the 
power  of  the  Holy  Ghost  in  a  state  of 
perfect  unconsciousness.  By  her  hand 
was  written  the  following: 

"Drink  from  the  water  of  life  freely.” 
Then  she  lifted  both  hands  straight  up¬ 
wards,  locked  her  fingers  under  her 
double  first  so  as  to  form  a  sort  of  cup 
in  her  double  first  to  resemble  a  drinking 
fountain,  then  came  from  her  lips  the 
words,  "Drink,  drink.” 

One  at  a  time  we  all  stooped  and  went 
through  the  motion  of  drinking  out  of 
the  fist-fountain.  Then  the  Lord  wrote 
us  the  following  letter  by  the  hand  of  the 
prophetess: 

"I  just  wanted  to  see  if  you  would  but 
obey  me.  Each  time  you  do  my  will  you 
climb  a  golden  step  towards  heaven.  Be 
faithful  and  pray  hard.  Obey.  Thou  art 
my  faithful  few.” 

In  this  same  service  I  was  twice  com¬ 
manded  by  the  lips  of  the  prophets  to 
dance.  Each  time  I  closd  my  eyes  and 
hopped  around  a  little  but  did  not  dance 
from  my  heart.  I  did  not  allow  my  feet 
to  go  into  the  step  which  the  Lord  had 
given  me.  Then  the  Lord  wrote  me  the 
following  letter: 

"My  Blessed  Lamb:  You  are  so  true 
to  me.  Be  more  faithful,  more  humble. 
Do  whatever  I  command:  dance,  shout, 
sing  or  any  of  my  commands  that  I  order 
you  to  do.  You  must  obey,  because  al¬ 
ready  I  have  for  you  and  all  the  rest  a 
starry  crown.” 

Almira  Hutson’s  mother  attended  this 
service.  She  is  badly  afflicted  with  an 
internal  growth  which  if  the  Lord  does 
not  heal,  may  mean  the  knife,  or  death. 
Time  after  time  she  has  been  commanded 
by  the  lips  of  the  prophets  to  "praise  the 
Lord  in  the  dance.”  See  Psa.  149:3.  She 
always  disobeys  because  she  says  she 
cannot  dance.  I  have  prayed  for  this 
sister’s  healing,  but  something  always 


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23 


hindered  her  healing.  At  this  service  she 
was  again  commanded  to  dance.  She 
again  refused  to  obey.  Then  the  Lord 


sent  her  a  letter  in  which  he  said  to  her, 
“If  you  will  obey  me  and  dance  when  I 
tell  you  to  I  will  heal  you.” 


A  DAY  IN  THE  SCHOOL  OF  THE  PROPHETS 


The  saints  in  Tilden  have  an  all  day 
fast  every  Monday,  which  has  been  ap¬ 
pointed  by  the  Holy  Ghost.  On  this  day 
they  literally  worship  God  all  day.  The 
service  begins  at  6:00  A.  M.  and  ends  at 
6:00  P.  M.  No  one  is  to  eat  or  drink 
until  after  six  in  the  evening.  This  also 
is  the  appointment  of  the  Spirit.  The 
Spirit  has  asked  all  the  saints  to  obey 
this  order,  and  has  promised  the  men 
that  if  any  of  them  lose  their  jobs  by 
obeying  His  commandments  he  will  give 
them  a  better  one.  But  only  a  few  of 
the  saints  literally  obey  these  orders. 
They  are  coming  and  going  all  day. 

These  prophets  fall  into  a  state  in 
which  the  action  of  the  mind  is  entirely 
suspended.  While  in  this  state  the 
prophecies  come  forth  from  their  lips 
usually  with  a  stammering  lip.  God  and 
the  Lord  Jesus  are  impersonated  in  these 
prophecies  and  sometimes  the  speaker 
refers  to  Himself  as  the  Holy  Ghost. 
By  means  of  these  prophets  community 
secrets  are  revealed,  family  secrets  also, 
and  in  many  instances  the  very  secrets 
of  the  heart  are  divined.  Through  them 
unfaithfulness  is  pointed  out  in  the  lives 
of  the  saints,  the  names  of  criminals  are 
divulged  and  their  crimes  are  described. 
The  arrivals  of  ministers  are  forecasted 
and  the  exact  time  of  their  arrival  is 
given  in  the  prophecies.  I  am  told  by 
the  pastor  that  every  one  of  these  pro¬ 
phecies  have  been  fulfilled.  Oftimes  when 
young  saints  begin  to  wander  from  the 
fold,  their  blunders  are  pointed  out 
through  the  prophets. 

The  writer  witnessed  the  preaching  of 
a  sermon  through  one  who  is  not  a 
preacher.  The  speaker  impersonated 
Jesus.  It  contained  deep  and  wonderful 
sayings.  I  was  intensely  interested.  Yet, 
notwithstanding  this  fact,  and  although 
it  was  but  yesterday,  I  am  unable  to 
recall  a  single  word  of  this  sermon. 
Through  these  prophets  one  can  con¬ 
verse  with  the  Holy  Ghost  as  if  he  were 
a  man.  He  literally  teaches  the  saints 
all  things  according  to  Jno.  14:26;  I  Jno. 
2:27. 

One  of  the  prophets  arose  and  said,  “I 
see  7,  10,  4  and  5,  figure  this  out  as  men 
figure  and  see  what  it  means.” 

After  a  little  hesitancy,  I  suggested 
that  these  numbers  stood  for  the  7th, 
10th,  4th  and  5th  letters  of  the  alphabet. 
A  voice  from  the  lips  of  the  prophet  said, 
“That  is  right.” 


We  counted  and  found  that  the  num¬ 
bers  stood  for  G,  J,  D  and  E.  Then  I 
said,  “But  what  do  these  letters  stand 
for?” 

The  voice  from  the  prophet’s  lips  said, 
“G  stands  for  God;  J  stands  for  Just; 
D  stands  for  Doubt,  and  E  stands  for 
Easy.” 

Then  I  said,  “I  do  not  yet  understand 
the  meaning.” 

The  voice  answering  said  unto  me, 
“The  meaning  is  this:  God  will  judge  the 
just.  Some  saints  doubt  because  the 
devil  puts  it  in  them.  If  they  will  only 
believe  me,  I  will  make  the  way  easy.” 

There  is  a  young  Pentecostal  preacher 
in  Tilden  whose  mother,  living  in  Iowa, 
recently  planned  to  pay  her  son  a  visit. 
The  Holy  Ghost  had  promised  the 
brother  through  a  prophet  that  his 
mother  would  get  saved  when  she  came 
to  Tilden.  She  came  and  attended  the 
all  day  meeting  yesterday.  In  the  fore 
part  of  the  day  the  Holy  Ghost  suddenly 
fell  upon  her.  She  began  to  shake  with 
the  power  and  fell  from  her  chair.  She 
received  salvation  and  the  baptism  of  the 
Holy  Ghost  and  spoke  with  tongues  be¬ 
fore  she  got  up  off  of  the  floor.  At  the 
same  time  the  Spirit  fell  on  a  woman 
from  Marissa,  who  had  sought  for  the 
baptism  but  had  never  spoken  freely  in 
tongues.  She  suddenly  began  to  speak 
fluently  in  tongues. 

By  the  mouth  of  one  of  the  prophets 
the  Holy  Ghost  said,  “I  am  going  to  send 
my  faithful  ones  out  of  Tilden.  I  will 
send  them  to  places  where  the  people 
want  to  hear  my  word,  and  I  will  give 
my  ministers  enough  means  to  get  by 
on. 

At  another  time  the  Lord  said  by  the 
mouth  of  a  prophet,  “Do  not  murmur 
when  you  have  to  endure  hardness  for 
me.” 

In  the  forenoon  also  I  received  the  fol¬ 
lowing  letter  from  the  Lord,  “You  go  to 
New  Athens  and  preach.  Two  religions 
will  be  against  you;  but  preach  my 
Word.”  Then  the  prophetess  by  whom 
the  letter  was  sent  said,  “One  of  the 
religions  that  will  be  against  you  goes 
like  this:  [kneeling  and  bowing  so  low 
that  her  forehead  touched  the  floor,  then 
lifting  her  heard  she  made  upon  her 
breast  the  sign  of  the  cross]  and  the 
other  is  the  German  Lutheran.” 

Later  I  received  the  following  letter 
from  the  Lord,  “Go  see  family,  My  Son, 


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then  go  preach.  Make  your  visit  short.” 

At  another  time  the  Holy  Ghost  said 
to  me,  “I  am  going  to  heal  Sister  Frank¬ 
lin.  If  the  saints  here  will  not  believe  I 
will  take  her  away  from  here  and  heal 
her.  After  I  have  healed  her  I  will  call 
her  out  in  my  work.” 

In  another  letter  the  Lord  said,  “But  I 
do  this  to  my  own  glory  and  no  un¬ 
believer  shall  see  this  performed.” 

In  the  afternoon  the  Spirit  said  to  me 
by  the  lips  of  a  youthful  prophetess, 
fourteen  years  old,  “You  tell  the  saints 
that  if  they  ail  had  as  much  faith  as  you 
have,  I  would  heal  Sister  Franklin  to¬ 
day.” 

“I  don’t  like  to  tell  that,”  said  I. 

The  prophetess  gave  me  a  slap  on  the 
left  cheek  and  said,  “Tell  it!” 

I  then  told  the  saints  what  the  Spirit 
had  said,  but  I  did  not  think  to  ask  the 
Spirit  if  He  would  heal  Sister  Franklin 
for  me,  if  I  put  all  the  rest  of  the  saints 
out  of  the  House. 

By  the  mouth  of  the  same  youthful 
prophetess  the  Holy  Ghost  said  unto  me, 
“Go  to  New  Athens  and  preach  my 
Word.  The  people  of  that  town  need  the 
full  gospel.  Don’t  be  discouraged  if  you 
don’t  have  much  success  at  first.  There 
will  not  be  many  saints.  You  may  not 
be  able  to  get  a  hall  at  first,  but  if  you 
can’t  get  a  hall  preach  on  the  streets,  and 
preach  as  hard  to  one  man  as  you  would 
to  a  million.” 

Then  I  asked  the  Spirit,  “Will  there  be 
a  mob?”  And  He  said,  “There  will  be  a 
mob  to  start  trouble  but  you  will  win 
the  victory.  They  will  not  want  to  be- 
live  but  I  will  make  them  believe.  They 
will  not  have  a  chance  to  come  to  the 
altar  for  I  will  take  them  out  of  their 
seats.” 

Then  my  mind  began  to  wander.  I 
wondered  if  the  prophecy  contained  in 
the  last  sentence  was  really  to  be  ful¬ 
filled  at  New  Athens,  so  I  said  to  the 
Spirit,  “Where  shall  these  things  take 
place?”  And  the  Spirit  said,  “Every¬ 
where.” 

Then  the  Holy  Ghost  continued  to 
speak  unto  me  saying,  “Some  of  the 
saints  in  Tilden  and  in  Marissa  do  not 
like  you.  They  say  they  do  not  like  to 
hear  you  preach.  They  say  about  you, 
‘He  is  no  preacher,  he  is  a  teacher.’  They 
say  ‘He  is  out  for  the  money.’  Some  of 
them  don’t  want  to  come  to  New  Athens 
to  help  you,  but  I  am  going  to  make 
them  come  whether  they  want  to,  or  not. 
And  when  you  come  back  they  will  all 
want  to  hear  you  preach.” 

I  felt  hurt  when  I  learned  that  some 
thought  that  I  was  out  for  the  money, 
because  I  have  passed  through  such  great 
financial  straits  in  the  past  year. 


Then  I  said  to  the  Lord,  “How  am  I 
going  to  pay  my  debts?” 

The  prophetess  walked  across  the  floor, 
picked  up  a  Bible  and  came  back  to  me. 
with  the  Bible  in  her  left  hand,  and  the 
finger  of  her  right  hand  pointing  to  it, 
while  the  Spirit  spake  to  me  from  her 
lips,  saying,  “Do  you  believe  that  book?” 

I  said,  “Yes  Lord,  I  believe  that  book.” 

Then  she  opened  the  Bible  and  holding 
the  open  Bible  up  before  me,  she  passed 
her  hand  down  over  the  5th  chapter  of 
James  while  the  Holy  Ghost  said  by  her 
lips,  “Read  this.  Read  it  to  yourself.” 
When  I  had  read  this  chapter  carefully 
I  understood  that  my  debts  were  to  be 
payed  by  the  prayer  of  faith. 

The  little  prophetess  brought  the  Bible 
to  me  the  second  time.  Then  the  Spirit 
said  unto  me,  “You  believe  that  Book?” 

I  said,  “Yes  Lord.” 

“Then  read  it,”  said  the  Spirit,  “Read 
it  more.” 

The  Lord  said  unto  me  by  the  mouth 
of  this  prophetess,  “Never  say  that  you 
are  perfect.  No  man  is  perfect.  Even 
I  was  not  perfect.  We  must  glorify  the 
Father.  Many  preachers  say  that  they 
are  perfect,  but  they  are  above  my  head 
and  they  are  above  my  Father's  head.” 

Again  the  Holy  Ghost  said,  “Bro.  Joe 
[Robinson]  has  a  doubt.  I  am  going  to 
take  it  out  of  him.  He  has  secrets  which 
he  thinks  nobody  knows.  I  am  going  to 
tell  him  about  them.” 

The  Holy  Ghost  said  unto  me.  by  the 
mouth  of  another  prophetess,  “You  have 
doubted  my  power.” 

I  said,  “Yes,  Lord.” 

Continuing  the  Holy  Ghost  said, 
“When  my  power  begins  to  work  you 
begin  to  think.  You  say  in  your  heart, 
‘Is  this  God?’  I  have  only  begun  to 
work.  I  am  going  to  show  you  things 
far  greater  than  the  things  you  have 
seen;  and  when  you  see  them  you  will 
doubt  them,  and  then  I  will  make  you 
believe  them.” 

What  manner  of  times  are  these,  that 
even  the  secrets  of  our  hearts  should  be 
revealed? 

The  Lord  spake  unto  me  again  by  the 
mouth  of  the  little  prophetess,  saying, 
“When  you  begin  your  services  always 
rebuke  the  devil  in  my  name  and  tell  all 
the  saints  to  ask  God  to  rebuke  the  devil. 
If  all  the  preachers  would  do  this  they 
would  have  more  power  in  their  meet¬ 
ings.” 

The  Holy  Ghost  sent  the  little  prophet¬ 
ess  unto  me  saying  unto  me,  “Give  me 
your  tablet.” 

We  placed  a  pencil  and  tablet  in  her 
hands  thinking  that  the  Spirit  wanted  to 
write.  The  Spirit  shook  the  head  of  the 
prophetess  saying  from  her  lips,  “No,  I 


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A  DAY  IN  THE  SCHOOL  OF  THE  PROPHETS 


want  your  tablet.” 

I  reached  in  my  pocket  and  drew  out 
my  note  book  and  handed  it  to  the 
prophetess. 

“That  is  it,”  said  the  Spirit. 

The  Spirit  opened  it  by  the  hands  of 
the  prophetess  and  referred  to  the  letter, 
copied  in  it,  which  the  Lord  Jesus  had 
written  at  Marissa  to  Alm'ra  Hutson  and 
said  unto  me,  “Put  this  in  your  book  and 
print  the  address  with  it  so  it  can  be 
investigated.” 

Then  I  said  to  the  Holy  Ghost,  “May 
I  publish  my  secret  letter?” 

And  the  Spirit  answered,  “Yes.” 

Then  I  asked  the  Holy  Ghost  concern¬ 
ing  raising  the  money  to  pay  for  the 
printing  of  my  book  and  He  said  to  me, 
“Tell  Bro.  Nance  to  take  up  a  special 
offering  in  the  meeting  tonight.  Tell 
them  that  those  who  have  money  shall 
give  and  that  those  who  have  no  money 
need  not  give.  And  when  you  have  re¬ 
ceived  the  offering  don’t  say,  ‘This  is  not 
enough  to  publish  my  book.’  This  is 
what  makes  the  saints  think  you  are  out 
for  the  money.  Tell  Bro.  Lloyd  to  take 
up  such  an  offering  at  Marissa.” 

“Shall  I  give  the  saints  books  for  the 
offering?”  I  inquired. 

The  Spirit  answered,  saying,  “After 
you  have  taken  up  the  offering,  then  ask 
the  saints  if  they  want  any  of  the  books 
and  if  they  want  them  send  them  to 
them.” 

Then  I  said  to  the  Spirit,  “Shall  I  con¬ 
tinue  to  take  up  the  dollar  offering  as  I 
have  purposed?” 

And  the  Spirit  answered  me,  saying, 
“That  will  be  all  right  in  the  churches 
where  you  have  preached,  but  not  in 
other  churches,  lest  the  people  think  that 
you  are  out  for  the  money.” 

I  said  also  unto  the  Spirit,  “How  much 
shall  I  pray?” 

He  said  unto  me,  “Not  very  long,  if 
you  pray  with  faith  ” 

The  Lord  also  showed  us  that  we 
should  not  trust  in  man  for  order  in  our 
services,  saying  by  the  mouth  of  a 
prophetess,  “You  don’t  need  [drawing 
short  lines  across  one  center  on  the 
breast  to  signify  the  officer’s  star]  and 
[passing  both  hands  from  the  waist  down 
over  the  hips  to  signify  the  pistols  in 
the  holsters]  and  [passing  the  finger 
around  both  wrists  to  signify  the  hand¬ 
cuffs]  for  I  am  the  Law.” 

The  Holy  Ghost  said  also,  “I  am  going 
to  take  Bro.  Nance  [the  pastor]  away 
from  Tilden,  and  because  I  said  this  sor¬ 
row  has  filled  your  hearts,  I  will  take 
him  away  because  they  will  not  receive 
his  words.  I  will  take  him  to  a  p.ace 


where  they  want  to  hear  My  Word.” 

Again  the  Holy  Ghost  spake  unto  me 
saying,  “I  am  going  to  take  Bro.  Nance 
away  from  here,  and  send  them  a 
stronger  man  than  he,  (they  need  a 
strong  man  here,)  and  if  they  will  not 
hear  that  man,  this  church  will  go  down. 
Tell  this  to  Bro.  Nance.” 

After  the  service  had  closed  at  6:00  P. 
M.  I  went  to  Bro.  Nance  and  delivered 
the  message  I  had  received  for  him.  He 
had  already  received  it  through  a  prophet 
who  was  not  in  the  service  when  the 
message  was  delivered  to  me. 

The  Holy  Ghost  through  one  of  the 
prophetesses  lined  up  all  the  sisters  in 
two  lines  facing  each  other.  He  placed 
the  women  with  shingled  hair  in  one  line 
and  the  women  with  long  hair  in  the 
other.  The  long  hair  was  approved  by 
the  Spirit  but  the  women  with  bobbed 
hair  and  shaved  necks  were  pointed  out 
as  examples  of  shame.  The  Spirit  said 
to  them  that  they  should  not  do  these 
things  any  more,  because  they  were  fol¬ 
lowing  a  style  of  the  world.  The 
prophetess  herself  had  her  hair  bobbed 
and  her  neck  shaved.  When  she  came 
out  from  under  the  power  another 
prophetess  was  filled  with  the  spirit  of 
prophecy  and  led  her  out  before  us  all 
and  pointed  her  out  also  as  an  example 
of  shame. 

In  the  forenoon  the  Holy  Ghost  told 
us  that  Bro.  Rose  who  is  in  prison  in 
Chester,  for  a  crime  he  is  accused  of 
having  committed  before  he  was  saved 
had  let  down.  The  Spirit  said  the  pris¬ 
oners  had  been  making  fun  of  him  and 
that  this  caused  him  to  let  down.  The 
Spirit  repeated  to  us  through  the  prophet 
the  exact  words  the  prisoners  had  said  to 
him.  The  Spirit  commanded  that  some 
of  the  saints  should  go  immediately  to 
Chester  and  pray  for  Bro.  Rose,  and 
bring  him  back  to  the  fold.  Three  car¬ 
loads  cf  saints  went  immediately  to 
Chester  and  found  all  things  as  the  Lord 
had  said.  And,  notwithstanding  the  fact 
that  it  was  Monday,  and  visitors  are  not 
allowed  to  see  the  prisoners  on  that  day 
cf  the  week,  the  sheriff  allowed  the  saints 
to  take  the  prisoner  out  to  his  garage  and 
hold  a  prayer  meeting  with  him.  He  was 
reinstated. 

At  a  time  when  the  spirit  of  prophecy 
was  silent,  (a  prophet  was  lying  on  the 
floor  under  the  power,)  our  minds  began 
to  wander.  Some  one  remarked,  “Would 
it  not  be  nice  if  we  could  find  a  church 
with  every  member  in  it  trying  to  obey 
God  in  everything.” 

“If  I  could  find  such  a  church,”  said  I, 
“I  would  feel  like  staking  down  and  stay- 


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THE  BURNING  V/HEEL  REVIVAL 


ing  with  it.”  “I  can  make  such  a  church,”  said 

“There  is  no  such  church  upon  earth,”  the  Spirit  by  the  lips  of  the  prophet  lying 
said  another.  on  the  floor. 

A  VISIT  TO  THE  CHURCHES 


I  left  Tilden  with  no  intention  of  re¬ 
turning  to  that  town  before  I  went  home. 
I  visited  the  churches  at  Sparta,  Chester, 
Percy,  Willisville,  Cutler  and  Coulter- 
ville,  for  the  purpose  of  raising  money  to 
print  my  book  as  the  Holy  Ghost  had 
directed  me.  I  also  visited  Bro.  Lirely 
at  Ava. 

At  Chester  the  Lord  made  a  deaf  ear 
hear  the  tick  of  a  watch  which  had  never 
heard  a  watch  tick  before.  The  deaf 
woman  was  57  years  old. 

At  Coulterville  during  the  afternoon 
service,  the  spirit  of  prophecy  fell  upon 
two  girls  and  they  began  to  prophecy. 

THE  SECOND  DAY  IN  THE 

A  prophetess  touched  the  hot  stove 
several  times  with  her  fingers.  Then  she 
led  several  others  to  the  stove  and  made 
them  touch  it  to  show  them  that  it  was 
hot.  Then  by  the  mouth  of  the  prophet¬ 
ess  the  Holy  Ghost  said  unto  me,  “You 
are  going  to  have  a  test.  You  are  going 
to  have  a  test.  When  you  get  through 
the  fire  you  will  gain  the  victory.  When 
you  get  through  there  you  will  not  doubt 
so  much.  Others  will  go  through  the 
fire,  and  when  they  go  through  the  fire 
they  will  not  doubt  so  much.  If  you  go 
through  with  me  you  will  have  to  go 
through  the  fire.” 

Then  the  Spirit  said  to  all,  “Many  will 
go  through  the  fire.  I  will  send  them 
where  they  will  go  through  the  fire.  I 
wfiil  send  Bro.  Schell  to  that  place  and 
he  will  have  to  go  through  the  fire.” 

Then  to  me  He  said,  “Pray  that  you 
may  be  able  to  go  through  the  fire.” 

Continuing  the  Spirit  said,  “Sister 
W est  will  have  to  go  through  the  fire 
here  before  she  wins  victory.  The  fire 
is  already  kindled.  I  sent  her  here,  and 
she  must  stay  until  she  wins  victory. 
For  this  purpose  I  sent  her  here.  You 
think  you  don’t  have  to  suffer  for  me, 
but  you  are  going  to  have  to  suffer  for 
me  to  win  the  victory  over  satan.  Them 
that  do  not  believe  will  have  more  than 
fire  to  go  through.  If  they  will  humble 
themse  ves  at  the  foot  of  the  cross,  I 
will  start  them  on  the  straight  and  nar¬ 
row  way,  but  they  won’t  humble  them¬ 
selves.” 

Again  the  Spirit  said  unto  me,  “I  have 
f'"m"  'kings  the  devil  don’t  want  you  to 
he' r.  Pray  and  I  will  speak.” 

I  prryed  earnestly  in  secret  and  then 


In  the  first  message  the  Holy  Ghost  said, 
“I  will  not  ask  them  to  come  to  the  altar 
any  more,  I  will  take  them  out  of  their 
seats.  They  say  they  can’t  understand 
but  I  will  make  them  understand.” 

At  this  service  I  met  a  brother  from 
Tilden  to  whom  I  said,  “I  have  decided 
to  take  in  another  all  day  meeting  at 
Tilden  Monday.” 

“I  heard  today,”  said  he,  “that  you 
were  coming  back  to  Tilden.” 

“How  did  you  hear  that?”  I  asked. 
“The  Holy  Ghost  told  us  in  our  morn¬ 
ing  service  at  Tilden,”  said  he,  “that  you 
were  coming  back  to  Tilden.” 

SCHOOL  OF  THE  PROPHETS 

the  Spirit  continued,  saying,  “Jesus  says 
you  shall  go  and  preach  my  Word  to 
that  town  and  tell  them  to  turn  from  that 
old  way  and  come  to  the  foot  of  the  cross 
where  their  sins  will  be  washed  away, 
and  that  my  Spirit  will  guide  them 
through  life.  They  cannot  harm  our 
souls  and  they  shall  not  harm  thee.” 

A  brother  who  had  never  prophecied 
before  fell  upon  the  floor  under  the  Spirit 
of  prophecy.  Lying  on  his  back  he  held 
up  seven  fingers.  We  counted  them. 
Then  the  Holy  Ghost  spake  by  his 
mouth,  saying,  “There  are  seven  evil 
spirits  coming  this  way.  They  are  com¬ 
ing  to  fight  against  you.  Saints  pray! 
Pray!  Pray!” 

We  prayed  and  then  the  prophet  held 
up  ten  fingers  and  then  the  Spirit  said 
by  his  lips,  “The  Lord  has  given  you  ten 
good  spirits  to  fight  against  the  seven 
evil  spirits.” 

The  spirit  of  prophecy  fell  upon  a 
sister  from  Sparta  who  had  never  pro¬ 
phesied  before.  By  her  mouth  the  Holy 
Ghost  said,  “There  are  seven  legions  of 
devils  but  the  Lord  has  given  you  ten 
legions  and  thousands  to  fight  against 
them.” 

The  Lord  had  told  me  by  a  letter  that 
He  would  give  me  a  crown  of  Glory.  He 
said  also  that  He  had  a  crown  of  right¬ 
eousness  laid  up  for  me.  I  thought  that 
the  Lord  had  spoken  to  me  of  two 
crowns  and  conjectured  that  the  price  of 
the  crown  of  g’ory  might  be  martyrdom. 
I  wras  worried,  so  I  asked  the  Holy 
Ghost,  “What  is  the  price  of  the  crown 
of  glcrv?”  He  answered  me  saying,  “It 
earn,  t  be  purchased  with  money.  If  you 
are  righteous  you  will  keep  my  com- 


OTHER  SAYINGS  FROM  THE  LIPS  OF  THE  PROPHETS 


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mandments  and  you  shall  have  a  crown 
of  glory.  Some  say  that  they  are  right¬ 
eous  but  they  do  not  keep  my  command¬ 
ments;  these  shall  not  wear  the  crown  of 
glory.  Obedience  is  better  than  sacri¬ 
fice.” 

Again  I  asked,  “Lord  is  the  crown  of 
glcry  and  the  crown  of  righteousness  the 
same  thing?” 

The  Spirit  held  up  one  finger  of  the 
little  fourteen-year-old  prophetess  and 
answered  me  by  her  lips,  saying,  “There 
is  but  one  crown.  If  you  obey  all  my 
commandments  you  shall  have  a  crown 
of  righteousness  which  is  a  crown  of 
glory.” 

Near  the  close  of  the  twelve-hour  service 
the  little  prophetess  led  four  of  us  out  on 
the  floor  and  by  her  lips  the  Holy  Ghost 
said  unto  us,  “Pray  for  Bill  that  he  may 
be  saved.”  She  had  a  brother  Bill  who 
was  unsaved  and  the  other  three  sup¬ 
posed  that  he  was  the  one  alluded  to. 
Then  the  Spirit  said  to  me,  “Talk  to  him 
to  n:ght.  He  would  have  been  saved 


before  now  if  the  boys  had  not  talked  to 
him.  Pray  for  him.  Pray  hard  for  him. 
If  you  pray  for  him  he  will  not  sleep  at 
night.  I  can  bring  him  down.  I  can 
shut  men’s  mouths.”  Feeling  uncertain 
as  to  who  the  party  was  that  I  was  to 
pray  for  I  asked,  “Who  is  it,  Lord?”  The 
three  persons  standing  by  me  said,  “It  is 
her  brother  Bill.”  But  the  Spirit  by  the 
mouth  of  the  child  said,  “I  will  reveal  to 
you  who  he  is.  If  you  trust  me  you  will 
know  him.”  At  the  service  that  night  I 
inquired  about  her  brother  Bill.  He  was 
not  at  church.  A  doubt  arose  in  my 
mind.  When  the  altar  call  was  given  I 
saw  a  young  man  falling  down  at  the 
altar.  I  did  not  recognize  him.  The 
Spirit  said,  “This  is  the  one  you  are  to 
pray  for.”  By  inquiry  I  learned  that  he 
was  Bill  Calvert  from  Marissa. 

The  Holy  Ghost  said  again  to  the 
saints  at  Tilden,  “Pray  for  Bro.  Schell 
while  he  is  at  New  Athens.  Hold  special 
prayer  every  Wednesday  night  and  fast 
every  Thursday.” 


OTHER  SAYINGS  FROM  THE  LIPS  OF  THE  PROPHETS 


“My  coming  is  near,  but  before  I  come 
I  will  test  my  children.  If  you  cannot 
stand  my  Spirit  you  cannot  go  with  me.” 

“Pray  for  the  third  person.” 

“I  say  to  you  children  doubt  not  and 
stay  humble  before  me  and  ye  shall 
see  signs  and  wonders.” 

“Stay  humble  before  me  and  I  will 
make  all  things  clear.” 

“I  say  to  you  believe  all  things;  take 
my  Word  for  it  and  believe  me  first  of 
all.” 

“You  must  become  more  humble  You 
must  pray  more.  There  is  too  much 
foolishness.  Get  more  serious.  It  is  time 
to  cast  out  all  foolishness.  Be  more 
humble.  Be  more  prayerful.” 

“They  shall  take  them  from  the  altars 
and  slay  them.” 

“The  devil  goes  that  he  may  devour 
the  saints.  Plold  on  to  me.  Hold  on 
to  me  and  you  will  win  the  victory.” 

“When  my  children  get  lifted  up  they 
think  that  they  can  sit  down  and  not 
read  my  Word  nor  pray.  But  thev  must 
humble  themselves  and  pray  and  then 
they  can  follow  me.  If  they  will  humble 
themselves  the  way  is  clear  before  them; 
it  is  shining.  See?  the  light  is  shining.” 


“Many  souls  desire  to  come  unto  me 
but  some  one  is  blocking  the  way.  You 
must  pray  and  believe  and  then  you  will 
see  souls  saved.” 

“I  saw  him  coming  and  then  darkness 
overtook  him.  I  saw  him  start  but  he 
was  stopped.  I  saw  him  start  on  the 
narrow  way  but  he  didn’t  go  far.  Now 
he  is  troubled  and  when  it  is  removed 
he  is  coming  on.  There  is  a  stop.  Pray 
and  he  will  come  on.  He  can’t  stand  it. 
He  can’t  stand  the  fire  and  he  can’t  be¬ 
lieve.  See?  You  pray,  pray,  pray,  pray 
and  the  way  is  opened.” 

“The  saints  must  be  tried  by  fire.” 

“There  are  too  many  doubts  in  my 
children’s  hearts  sometimes.” 

“My  children  when  danger  approaches 
I  will  warn  you.  See  that  you  take  my 
warning.” 

“Fear  not,  I  will  lead  you  into  all  truth 
if  you  stay  humlble  and  pray.” 

“The  saints  doubt  my  children  and  that 
makes  them  quench  my  Spirit.  They 
doubt  my  works  in  them,  that  makes 
them  quench  the  Spirit.” 

“Don’t  doubt  my  *  prophets,  any  o: 
them.  If  they  are  not  of  me  I  will  set 
them  down.  If  these  things  were  not  of 
me  I  would  not  have  allowed  them  to 
have  been  spoken.” 

“I  say  to  you,  My  Son:  You  must  all 
be  tried.  You  all  make  mistakes.  There 
is  none  perfect.  When  you  get  perfect 
you  are  too  good  for  this  world.” 


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THE  BURNING  WHEEL  REVIVAL 


SCRIPTURE  QUOTATIONS 

On  the  Baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost  as  Subsequent  to  the  Pardon  of  Sins 


“I  indeed  baptize  you  with  water  unto 
repentance:  but  he  that  cometh  after  me 
is  mightier  than  I,  whose  shoes  I  am  not 
worthy  to  bear:  he  shall  baptize  you  with 
the  Holy  Ghost,  and  with  fire.” — Mat. 
3:11. 

‘‘For  John  truly  baptized  with  water; 
but  ye  shall  be  baptized  with  the  Holy 
Ghost  not  many  days  hence.” — Acts  1  :5. 

“Now  when  the  apostles  which  were  at 
Jerusalem  heard  that  Samaria  had  re¬ 
ceived  the  word  of  God,  they  sent  unto 
them  Peter  and  John:  who,  when  they 


came  down,  prayed  for  them,  that  they 
might  receive  the  Holy  Ghost:  (for  as 
yet  he  was  fallen  upon  none  of  them: 
only  they  were  baptized  in  the  name  of 
the  Lord  Jesus.)  Then  laid  they  their 
hands  on  them,  and  they  received  the 
Ho'y  Ghost.” — Acts  8:14-17. 

“And  finding  certain  disciples,  he  said 
unto  them,  Plave  ye  received  the  Holy 
Ghost  since  ye  believed?” — Acts  19:1,  2. 

“After  that  ye  believed  ye  were  sealed 
with  the  Holy  Spirit  of  promise.” — Eph. 
1:13. 


On  Tongues  as  the  Evidence  of 

“And  they  were  all  filled  with  the  Holy 
Ghost,  and  began  to  speak  with  other 
tongues,  as  the  Spirit  gave  them  utter¬ 
ance.” — Acts  2:4. 

“While  Peter  yet  spake  these  words 
the  Holy  Ghost  fell  on  all  them  which 
heard  the  word.  And  they  of  the  circum¬ 
cision  which  believed  were  astonished  as 
many  as  came  with  Peter,  because  that 

On  the  Signs  to 

“And  these  signs  shall  follow  them  that 
believe;  In  my  name  shall  they  cast  out 
devks;  they  shall  speak  with  new  ton¬ 
gues;  they  shall  take  up  serpents;  and  if 

On  Praising  the 

“And  Miriam  the  prophetess,  the  sister 
of  Aaron,  took  a  timbrel  in  her  hand; 
and  all  the  women  went  out  after  her 
with  timbrels  and  with  dances.” — Ex. 
15:20. 

“And  Jephtha  came  to  Mizpeh  unto  his 
house,  and,  behold,  his  daughter  came 
out  to  meet  him  with  timbrels  and  with 
dances.” — Judgs  11:34. 

“There  is  a  feast  of  the  Lord  in  Shiloh 

. Therefore  they  commanded  the 

children  of  Benjamine,  saying,  Go  and 
lie  in  wait  in  the  vineyards;  and  see,  and, 
behold,  if  the  daughters  of  Shiloh  come 
out  to  dance  in  the  dances,  then  come  ye 

On  Visions 

“Your  young  men  shall  see  visions  and 
your  old  men  shall  dream  dreams.” — 
Acts  2:17. 

“There  appeared  unto  them  cloven 
tongues  like  as  of  fire,  and  it  sat  upon 
each  of  them.” — Acts  2:3. 

“He  saw  in  a  vision  evidently  about 
the  rinth  hour  of  the  day  an  angel  of 
God  coming  in  to  Him,  and  saying  unto 
him.” — Acts  10:3. 

“He  fell  into  a  trance,  and  saw  heaven 


the  Baptism  of  the  Holy  Ghost 

on  the  Gentiles  also  was  poured  out  the 
gift  of  the  Holy  Ghost.  For  they  heard 
them  speak  with  tongues,  and  magnify 
God.”— Acts  10:44-46. 

“And  when  Paul  bad  laid  his  hands 
upon  them,  the  Holy  Ghost  came  on 
them  and  they  spake  with  tongues,  and 
prophesied.” — Acts  19:6. 

Follow  Believers 

they  drink  any  deadly  thing,  it  shall  not 
hurt  them;  they  shall  lay  hands  on  the 
sick,  and  they  shall  recover.” — Mark  16: 

17,  18. 

Lord  in  the  Dance 

out  of  the  vineyards,  and  catch  every 

man  his  wife . And  the  children  of 

Benjamine  did  so,  and  took  them  wives, 
according  to  the  number  of  them  that 
danced,  whom  they  caught.” — Judges 
21:19-23. 

“And  David  danced  before  the  Lord 
with  all  his  might.” — 2  Sam.  6:14. 

“Let  them  praise  his  name  in  the 
dance. “ — Ps.  149:3. 

“Praise  him  with  the  timbrel  and 
dance.” — Ps.  150:4. 

“Rejoice  ye  in  that  day,  and  leap  [Gk. 
dance]  for  joy.” — Luk.  6:23. 

and  Trances 

opened.” — Acts  10:10-22. 

“While  I  prayed  in  the  temple,  I  was 
in  a  trance;  and  saw  him  saying  unto  me, 
make  haste,  and  get  thee  quickly  out  of 
Jerusa’em;  for  they  will  not  receive  thy 
testimony  concerning  me.” — Acts  22:17, 

18. 

“Such  an  one  caught  up  to  the  third 
heaven.” — 2  Cor.  12:2. 

“He  was  caught  up  into  paradise.” — 
V.  4. 


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On  Shaking  With  the  Power 


“And  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  began  to 
move  him  at  times  in  the  camp  of  Dan.” 
— Judges  13:25. 

“I  will  go  out  as  at  other  times  before, 
and  shake  myself.” — Judges  16:20. 

“All  my  bones  shake,  I  am  like  a 


drunken  man,  and  like  a  man  whom  wine 
hath  overcome.” — Jer.  23:9. 

“A  great  quaking  fell  upon  them,  so 
that  they  fled  to  hide  themselves.” — Dan. 
10:10. 


Falling  Under  the  Power 


“When  I  saw  him,  I  fell  at  his  feet  as 
dead.”— Rev.  1:17. 

“While  they  made  ready,  he  fell  into  a 
trance.” — Acts  10:10. 

“I  fell  unto  the  ground,  and  heard  a 
voice  saying  unto  me,  Saul,  Saul,  why 
persecutest  thou  me?" — Acts  22:7. 


“And  when  we  were  all  fallen  to  the 
earth,  I  heard  a  voice  speaking  unto  me.” 
— Acts  26:14. 

“And  when  I  saw  it  I  fell  upon  my 
face.” — Ezek.  1:28. 

“And  I  fell  on  my  face.” — Ch.  2:23. 


On  the  New  Testament  Prophets 


“Behold,  I  send  unto  you  prophets,  and 
wise  men,  and  scribes:  and  some  of  them 
ye  shall  kill  and  crucify;  and  some  of 
them  ye  shall  scourge  in  your  synagogues 
and  persecute  them  from  city  to  city.” — 
Mat.  23:34. 

“God  hath  set  some  in  the  church,  first 
apoltles,  secondarily  prophets.” — I  Cor. 
12:28. 

“And  he  gave  some  apostles;  and  some, 
prophets.” — Eph.  4:11. 

“As  it  is  now  revealed  unto  his  holy 
apostles  and  prophets  by  the  Spirit.” — 
Eph.  3:5. 

“Now  there  was  in  the  church  that  was 
at  Antioch  certain  prophets  and  teachers; 
as  Barnabas,  and  Simeon  that  was  called 
Nigar,  and  Lucius  of  Cyrene,  and  Man- 
aen,  which  had  been  brought  up  with 


Herod  the  Tetrarch,  and  Saul.  As  they 
ministered  to  the  Lord,  and  fasted,  the 
Holy  Ghost  said,  Separate  me  Barnabas 
and  Saul  for  the  work  whereunto  I  have 
called  them.” — Acts  13:1,  2. 

“And  Judas  and  Silas,  being  prophets 
also  themselves,  exhorted  the  brethren 
with  many  words,  and  confirmed  them.” 
— Acts  15:32. 

“There  came  down  from  Judaea  a  cer¬ 
tain  prophet,  named  Agabus.” — Acts  21: 
10. 

“To  another  prophecy.” — I  Cor.  12:10. 

“And  the  same  man  had  four  daugh¬ 
ters,  virgins,  which  did  prophesy.” — Acts 
21:9. 

“Despise  not  prophesyings.” — I  Thess. 
5:20. 

See  also  I  Cor.  14:1-5,  24,  25,  29-32,  39. 


On  the  Voice  of  the  Spirit  in  the  Churches 


-  “He  that  hath  an  ear  let  him  hear  what 
the  Spirit  saith  unto  the  Churches.” — 
Rev.  2:7,  11,  17,  29;  3:6,  13,  22. 

“Now  when  they  had  gone  throughout 
Phrygia  and  the  region  of  Galatia,  and 
were  forbidden  of  the  Holy  Ghost  to 
preach  the  word  in  Asia,  After  they  came 
to  Mys’a,  they  assayed  to  go  into  Bithy- 


nia:  but  the  Spirit  suffered  them  not.” — 
Acts  16:6,  7. 

“The  Holy  Ghost  witnesseth  in  every 
city,  saying,  Bonds  and  afflictions  abide 
me.” — Acts  20:23. 

“Now  the  Spirit  speaketh  expressly, 
that  in  the  latter  times  some  shall  depart 
from  the  faith.” — I  Tim.  4:1. 


On  Persons  Under  the  Power 


“I  was  in  the  Spirit  on  the  Lord’s  day.” 
—Rev.  1:10. 

“He  came  by  [Gk.  in]  the  Spirit  into 
the  temple.” — Luk.  2:27. 

“And  the  hand  of  the  Lord  was  on 
Elijah;  and  he  edrded  up  his  loins,  and 
ran  before  Ahab  to  the  entrance  of  Jez- 


reai.” — I  Kings  18:46. 

“Behold  a  young  lion  roared  against 
him.  And  the  Spirit  of  the  Lord  came 
mightily  upon  him,  and  he  rent  him  as  he 
would  have  sent  a  kid,  and  he  had  noth¬ 
ing  in  his  hand.” — Judges  14:5,  6.  See 
also  Judges  14:19;  15:14,  15. 


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